Kikaku TAKARAI, a master of Haikai (seventeen-syllable verse), came across Tadao OTAKA, Ako Roshi (lordless samurai of Ako domain), who spent his time selling bamboo grass on the Ryogoku-bashi Bridge.
俳諧の師匠宝井其角は偶然両国橋で笹売りに身をやつしている赤穂浪士の大高忠雄に出会う。