"A sea voyage where the air is so clear that your lungs turn blue" is a haiku inscribed on a monument in Kamama-mine Park on Miyako Island. It was composed in the early Showa period by Shinohara Hōsaku, a haiku poet who was assigned to the former Miyako Middle School. Perhaps the air he breathed in on the ship heading to the island, along with the blueness of the sea, colored his lungs.▼The author, who has experience working on Miyako Island, is…
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"A sea voyage where the air is so clear that your lungs turn blue" is a haiku inscribed on a monument in Kamama-mine Park on Miyako Island. It was composed in the early Showa period by Shinohara Hōsaku, a haiku poet who was assigned to the former Miyako Middle School. Perhaps the air he breathed in on the ship heading to the island, along with the blueness of the sea, colored his lungs.▼The author, who has experience working on Miyako Island, is…