A special train was operated to create haiku while enjoying the scenery and gorgeous meals swayed by the train, and haiku poems about Iyo-nada were shown.
The JR Shikoku sightseeing train "Iyonada Monogatari" is operated as a "Haiku train" on the 8th as part of a tourism agreement with Matsuyama City, which is closely related to haiku, and carries 25 people between Matsuyama Station and Iyo-Ozu Station. I ran.
Masato Iefuji, a haiku poet who served as a lecturer, advised that casual twelve characters such as "painting honey on toast" and "train history for 30 years" would be the "seed" of haiku while interacting lightly with passengers. bottom.
Passengers wrote haiku with a luxurious lunch as a "seed", including the scenes of houses scattered in the countryside seen from the train window, the Iyo-nada Sea spreading all over, and the people who see off along the railway line.
Mr. Iefuji selected excellent works while drawing out the goodness of the work through each one, and after the five phrases were announced, the passengers voted for the first place, "Iyo-nada enters the winter. Was selected.
Fusako Kusumi, who wrote this phrase, said, "I usually see the Seto Inland Sea, but today I ran along the Iyo-nada Sea, and today I could see the sea and the sky in one color."
Mr. Iefuji said, "Haiku can be used as a material for haiku, whether it's hearing or eating. I enjoyed everything that customers encountered and thought it was a day that appeared in haiku."