Mount Iwate, an active volcano, dominates the skyline of Morioka City, just as it did in the time of poet Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933). So inspired was he by the mountain and the surrounding Tohoku region's bleak but beautiful nature, that in June of 1922 he penned the poem:
Weathered black, gouged
Into the sky's dispersed reflection
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