Sesshōseki and the Yugyō Willow殺生石·遊行柳
1A Sheet of Verse for the Groom
と取あへぬ一句を柱に殘し侍し是より殺生石に行く舘代より馬にて送らる此口付のおとこ短尺得させよと乞ふやさしき事を望み侍るものかなと 野を橫に馬引むけよ郭公
With that, I left on a pillar a verse thrown together on the spot. From here I go on to Sesshōseki. The deputy sent me off on a horse. The man who led it asked me to give him a poem slip. Here is one who asks for a gracious thing, I thought, and so:
Across the moor / turn the horse's head that way, toward the cuckoo
Interlinear notes 1
一本コノとナシ
Another text does not have this 「と」.
2Sesshōseki and the Yugyō Willow
殺生石は溫泉の出る山陰にあり石の毒氣いまだほろびす蜂蝶のたぐひ眞砂の色の見えぬほどかさなり死す亦淸水ながるゝの柳は蘆野の里に有て田の畔にのこす此所の郡守戶部某の此柳みせばやなど折〳〵にの給ひ聞へ給ふをいづくの程にやと思ひしを今日此柳のかげにこそ立より侍りけれ 田一枚うへて立さる柳かな
Sesshōseki is in the shade of a mountain where a hot spring rises. The poison breath of the stone has not yet died away, and bees and butterflies and the like lie dead in heaps, so thick that the color of the sand cannot be seen.
And the willow of "where the clear water flows" is in the village of Ashino, still standing on the bank between the paddies. The district officer of this place, a man of the Kobe house, had said to me now and again that he wished to show me this willow, and I had wondered whereabouts it might be, and today I came to stand in the shade of that very willow.
One paddy / planted, and then the willow is left behind
Interlinear notes 2
一本なかるゝとのトアリ
Another text has 「なかるゝとの」.
け一本つトアリ
Another text has 「つ」 for 「け」.