The Shirakawa Barrier白河の關
1The Shirakawa Barrier — Here My Traveler's Heart Was Settled
心もとなき日數かさなるまゝに白川のせきにかゝりて旅心定りぬいかで都へと便り求めしもことわりや中にも此關は三關の一にして風騷の人心をとゝむ秋風を耳にのこし紅葉を俤にして靑葉の梢猶哀なり卯花の白妙に茨の花の咲そひて雪にもこゆる心地そする古人冠を正し衣裝を改めし事など淸輔の筆にとゞめ置れしとぞ 卯花をかざしに關の晴着哉曾良
The unsettled days had piled up, and then I came to the Shirakawa Barrier, and for the first time my traveler's heart was settled. "Somehow I would send word to the capital" — the man of old who looked for a messenger had reason for it.
Among them all, this barrier is one of the three barriers, and those who love poetry have set their hearts on it. With the autumn wind left in my ears and the red leaves before my eyes, the treetops of green leaves I saw were the more moving. The deutzia flowers were white, and the wild rose bloomed along with them, so that I felt as though I were crossing through snow. Kiyosuke set down with his brush, they say, such things as how a man of old straightened his cap and changed his dress.
Wearing deutzia flowers / I make them my festive dress for the barrier — Sora
Interlinear notes 1
裳ノ誤也
In 衣裝 the character 裝 is an error for 裳.