Cuckoo excursion toward Kamo
· Kamo Shrine area, Heian-kyō (Kyoto), Japan
Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication · file Shōnagon joined Empress Teishi and other ladies on a carriage excursion from their palace quarters toward Kamo, undertaken in hopes of hearing a cuckoo. Arthur Waley’s footnote dates this fifth month to 995. The text does not identify which Kamo shrine or the bridge visited; coordinates are a representative point in the Kamo shrine area.
