Iizuka飯塚の里
1Iizuka — Rain Through the Roof, and My Old Illness
五月五日の事なり其夜飯塚にやとる溫泉あれば湯に入て宿をかるに土座に莚を敷てあやしき貧家なり灯もなければゐろりの火かげに寢所をまうけて臥夜に入て雷鳴り雨しきりに降て臥せる上より雨もり蚤蚊にさゝれて眠らず持病さへおこりて消入ばかりになん短夜の空も漸〳〵明れば又旅立ぬ猶夜の名殘こゝろすゝまず馬をかり桑折の驛に出る
This was the fifth day of the fifth month. That night I lodged at Iizuka. There was a hot spring, so I bathed and then asked for a bed, but it was a poor, mean house with matting laid on a floor of bare earth. There was no lamp, so I made my bed by the light of the hearth fire and lay down.
When night came the thunder rolled and the rain fell hard, and it leaked down on the place where I lay, and the fleas and mosquitoes bit me so that I could not sleep. My old illness came on as well, and I felt as if my breath would go out of me. When the sky of the short night slowly grew light, I set out again. The night still hung on me and my heart was not in it, so I hired a horse and came out at the post town of Kōri.
Interlinear notes 2
さ一本せトアリ
In another text 「さ」 is written 「せ」.
一本コノるナシ
Another text does not have this 「る」.
2If I Die on the Road, That Is Heaven's Will
遙なる行末をかゝへてかゝる病ひ覺束なしといへど羇旅邊土の行脚捨身無常の觀念道路に死なん是天命なりと氣力聊とり直し路縱橫にふんで伊達の大木戶を越す鐙摺白石の城を過笠島の郡に入れは藤中將實方のつかはいづくの程ならんと人にとへばこれよりはるか右に見ゆる山ぎはの里をみのは笠島といふ道祖神の社かたみの薄今にありとおしゆ
With so long a road still ahead, such an illness was a hard thing, yet a pilgrimage through far country is a casting away of the body and a looking upon impermanence, and if I died on the road that would be heaven's will. So I took back a little of my strength, trod the road this way and that, and crossed the Ōkido of Date.
I passed Abumizuri and Shiroishi Castle, and when I entered the district of Kasashima I asked someone, "About where is the grave of Sanekata, the Fujiwara middle captain?" He told me, "The village you see far off to the right, at the foot of the mountains, is called Minowa and Kasashima. The shrine of the road god is there, and the pampas grass he left behind is there to this day."