Rakushisha

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  • Address
    Ogura-yama, Hinomyō-jin-chō 20, Ukyō-ku
  • Phone
    881 1953
  • Transport
    underground rail: 20min walk from Saga Arashiyama Station, Sagano line

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Lonely Planet review

This building was the hut of Mukai Kyorai, the best-known disciple of illustrious haiku poet Bashō. Legend holds that Kyorai dubbed the house Rakushisha (literally 'House of the Fallen Persimmons') when waking one morning after a storm he found the persimmons he had planned to sell had fallen from the garden's trees and scattered on the ground.