This monument, inscribed with the haiku of haiku poet Matsuo Basho, reads, "Unohana ya kuraki willow no wo no toroshi (Unohana flowers bloom through the dark willows)." Basho composed this poem during his time traveling frequently between his hometown of Iga-Ueno (present-day Iga City) and Osaka and Kyoto. Located a short distance south of Tamagawa Bridge on a path through Tamagawa Village, the monument was inscribed in 1843 and features distinctive calligraphy. Takatsuki's Tamagawa River, along with those in Yamashiro and Omi provinces, is one of the "Six Tamagawa Rivers" known as the "Tamagawa Rivers of the Three Islands of Settsu Province," and has long been a scenic spot sung about in poetry and other works. The "Unohana" (Japanese name: Deutzias, also known as the flower of Takatsuki), which blooms annually from May to June in Tamagawa Village in Mishima, Settsu Province, has been known as a poetic motif since the Heian period and frequently featured in haiku and senryu poems during the Edo period. In early summer, when the white flowers of the unohana blossoms bloom, it would be nice to take a stroll around Tamagawa while thinking of Basho.