Card Game Battles and Classical Poetry Journeys

The steps leading up to Ōmi Shrine in Shiga Prefecture.

A 2014 train decorated with designs from the anime Chūnibyō demo koi ga shitai! (Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions).

Poem 50 by Fujiwara no Yoshitaka on display in Ōmi Shrine.

The Ōmi Kangakukan, the theater of dreams for competitive karuta.

Crimson leaves in Nara Park are more fitting to the poem than those at Tatsuta Park.

Tatsutagawa and Tatsuta Park, where the leaves are only just beginning to change.

The bridge Togetsukyō in Kyoto’s Arashiyama district.

The gate is shut at Jōjakkōji. Fujiwara no Teika is said to have compiled the Hyakunin isshu anthology on the temple grounds.