💦TRAVERSING THE RAPIDS🚣‍♂️

The famous poet Susukida Kyūkin (薄田泣菫 d.1945), upon completing his first major collection 'The Departing Spring' (ゆく春), bound the originals in a koto string, weighed them with stones, and tossed them to the water god in the depths of the Hozu River.

The Hozugawa Kudari (保津川下り lit. 'Down the Hozu River') takes 300,000 visitors a year through the Hozu Gorge (保津峡).

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