Song called Lake Biwa Elegy, from a song monument in Katata, Shiga Prefecture. is a mournful song dedicated to the eight college rowers from Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture and three rowers from Kyoto who died on Lake Biwa while rowing in waters off Takashima-cho, Haginohama beach when they encountered strong winds from the Hira mountains on April 6, 1941. The boys from Kanazawa were students at the No. 4 High School 第四高等学校 which today is Kanazawa University. More info here: http://photoguide.jp/txt/Biwako_Aika
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