"It was early in the morning of March the twenty seventh that I took to the road."
From The Narrow Road to the Deep North (translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa). Image from the Oku no Hosomichi Handscroll by Buson. Source.
At the end of the first day he was at the village of Soka in what is now Saitama Prefecture. They've put up a statue of him in Fudaba-gashi Park.
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