Hyakunin Isshu, Poem 11
wata no harayaso shima kaketekogi-idenu tohito ni wa tsugeyoama no tsuribune
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That I have rowed outover the broad sea plain,heading towards the innumerable isles,please tell my beloved one,you fishing boats of the sea-folk!

[The sea off Shimane Pref., leading to the Oki Islands]

A poem about the sadness, loneliness and worries of an exile. 
"That I have rowed out with the innumerable islands on the wide sea as my target, please, fishing boats, tell that the one left behind in the capital!"

[Cliffs in the Oki Islands]
Yasoshima (lit. "eighty isles," in the sense of "innumerable islands") stands for the Oki Islands., an archipelago of about 180 islands 50 to 90 kilometers north of the Shimane Peninsula. The two main islands are Dozen and Dogo. From an early time the islands were used as a place of exile for political prisoners, of whom the most famous ones were the emperors Gotoba (who died there) and Godaigo, a few centuries after Ono no Takamura. There are therefore many historical remains. The isles are now part of the Daisen-Oki National Park. The inhabitants live mainly from fishing and cattle raising. Lafcadio Hearn visited the islands in 1892, spending a month there, and wrote about his experiences in Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan.
[The Oki Islands are known for bull fights, not between an armed man and an animal, but much fairer, between bull and bull]
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