おくの舗装みち 山寺編①閑さや、それにしてもRock and Rock ＊From YamagataPrefecture Risshakuji

When haiku poet Matsuo Basho was pilgrimage

 to Risshakuji of (Yamagata current) Dewa country

 (July 13, 1689) ,he made haiku "Shizukasaya 

iwani shimiiru semino koe"(Voice of the cicada is to be, 

around is quiet as if it had been absorbed into the rock .)