“Kaki kueba kane ga naru nari Hōryūji” is a haiku by Masaoka Shiki. It is the most famous of Shiki’s more than 200,000 haiku to be known as a synonym for haiku along with Matsuo Bashō’s “Furuike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto (The ancient pond, A frog leaps in, The sound of the water)”. Its meaning is, “After stopping by the Hōryūji Temple, I had a break at a teahouse and ate some persimmons. Then the temple’s bell rang to allow me to feel autumn in its sound”. Nishio Shiho, a Japanese-style painter, expressed this haiku, giving a sense of the autumn fullness, in a haiga (simple painting praising haiku poetry). The 3 persimmons in the foreground are brightly colored, which is thus pleasant to look at. A poem by Masaoka Shiki is attached to the Hōryūji Temple in the distance. It is a work with a deep flavor as if one can hear the sound of the temple’s bell.