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This complete stillnessSinking into the very rocks

The voice of cicadas

That’s the haiku that Matsuo Bashō wrote after climbing the stone staircase to Risshakuji Temple in 1689. Follow in the poet’s footsteps today and you may not find “complete stillness,” but you can come close. The temple is located in northern Japan’s Yamagata Prefecture in the off-the-beaten-path Tōhoku region, which receives fewer than 2% of the country’s international&

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