Tokusa Yama features the central figure from a noh play and chant, “Tokusa,” by the 14th-century genius Japanese playwright and philosopher Zeami. Tokusa is the horsetail plant, and the central character cuts horsetails for a living to make scouring brushes. In the play, his young son left home, went to Kyoto, and became a Buddhist monk.
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