Hi no Oka Pass

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Hi no Oka Pass (Hi no Oka Tooge)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Non-seasonal Topic
***** Category: Earth

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Explanation

Hi-no-oka, Hinooka 日ノ岡 , 日の岡





Hi no Oka is an old town on the Tokaido Road, leading to a pass road in the outskirts of Kyoto toward Yamashina.
From the pass there is a long waterway toward the city of Kyoto with some sluices near Hi no Oka.

The grave of tenno Tenchi 天智天皇御陵 is close by.




The Jizo Statue at Hi no Oka
山科区日ノ岡一切経谷町

There are many small Buddha statues at the feet of this Jizo.



花崗岩製で２ｍ近く丸彫り地蔵。江戸時代末の作風。宝珠と錫杖（鉄製）を持つポピュラーなお姿。国道１号線沿いの地蔵堂に大切に安置されています。このお地蔵さんの足下にたくさんの小石仏が置かれています。街道筋の石仏を集められたのでしょうか。
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HAIKU

日の岡やこがれて暑き牛の舌
hinooka ya kogarete atsuki ushi no shita
(summer stanzas, #176)

Breezeless Hinooka
and hot to the point of burning
hangs the cart ox's tongue
trans. EM & HO

EM & HO comment:
"Hi no oka 日ノ岡," "Hill of the Sun" had a steep slope enclosed by hills that made it hot even by the standards of nearby Kyoto, as the poor straining beast shows.

Details are here : Introducing Haiku Poets:
Mizuta Masahide 水田 正秀


This pass road is situated on the east side of the mountain, so the morning sun hits the traveller and thus gave the name to this area, "Hill of the Sun".


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