鉾に乗る人のきほひも都かな (hoko ni noru hito no kioi mo miyako kana) the pride of those on the floats the elegance of the old capital – Kikaku Tanzaku (短冊) in calligraphy are vertically-oriented paper on which one writes waka (和歌 – Japanese poems) like this haiku, in which the 17th-century poet Takarai Kikaku (1661-1707), a cosmopolitan Edo […]