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| | Station 20 - Shiogama Discussion |
 | | Noda no Tamagawa today is a small, ditch-like river, but in ancient times it was a deep tidewater and with the moon rising over the ravine it was a famous poetic spot for moon viewing. |
 | | Noda no Tamagawa, Oki no ishi, Sue no matsuyama, etc. are all places that have been celebrated in poetry, but if one just looks at them realistically, they are nothing more than a ditch full of water, an ordinary stone, and a common field of pine trees. |
 | | The sense of the poem is that as evening falls beside the Tamagawa at Noda in Michinoku, the breeze comes in from the sea and the sanderlings cry mournfully. |
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