June 25, 1689, at Utamakura (place names used in Japanese poetry, where a kind of code with a special meaning, mood, season or other reference to history is implied) Matsushima (Matsushima Town, Miyagi County, Miyagi Prefecture), Basho did not compose a haiku saying, 'What painter or writer could ever capture fully the wonder of the masterpiece of nature?'
5月9日　歌枕松島（宮城県宮城郡松島町）芭蕉は「いづれの人か筆をふるひ詞（ことば）を尽くさむ」とここでは句を残さなかった。