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Several times during the anime, Yūko Aioi ends her short haikus with 'Mogami
River'.

I've read on the [Wikipedia page for Mogami
River](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogami_River#cite_note-2) that Matsuo
Bashō used it in at least one of his poems, but I can't much written about it,
so it seems to me to be not a well-known feature of his poems.

Is this the correct reason for the inclusion of the line, or is there an
alternative reason?

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OCxuA.jpg)

(I couldn't find an image with subtitles, so hopefully this is a correct
example)


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Why do Yuko's poems always end in 'Mogami River'?


According to[ this academic
site](http://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2006/05/river-kawa.html), while it is
not a kigo (season word), the mogami river is well known in Japanese haiku.

I imagine Yuuko has trouble thinking of an entire 5-7-5 poem, and so she just
reuses this famous line for that reason.


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