The Takekuma Pine武隈の松
1The Takekuma Pine — Still in Two Trunks
武隈の松にこそ目さむる心地すれ根は土際より二木にわかれて昔のすがたうしなはずとしらる先能因法しおもひ出往昔陸奧守にて下りし人此木を伐て名とり川の橋杭にせられたるなどあればにや松は此たび跡もなしとは詠みたり代々あるは伐りあるひは植づきなどせしと聞くに今はた千歲のかたちとゞのほひてめでたき松のけしきになん侍し 武隈の松みや申せ遲さくら擧白
It was only when I came to the Takekuma pine that I felt my eyes open wide. From near the ground the root divides into two trunks, and one sees that it has not lost the form it had of old.
First of all the monk Nōin came to mind. Long ago a man who came down as governor of Mutsu cut this tree and made it into piles for the bridge over the Natori River, and perhaps it was for that reason that Nōin sang, "This time there is no trace of the pine." I had heard that in one age and another some cut it down and some planted it anew, but now it has taken on the form of a thousand years once more, and the pine made a splendid sight.
Show the Takekuma pine to him, late cherry blossoms — Kyohaku
Interlinear notes 3
木一本本トアリ
The 「木」 of 「二木」 is written 「本」 in another text.
一本し師トアリ一本づトアリ
In another text 「し」 is written 「師」, and another text has 「づ」.
一本ひナシ
Another text does not have 「ひ」.
2The Pine Rather Than the Cherry
とせんべちしたりければ 櫻より松は二木を三月こし
This he gave me as a parting verse.
Rather than cherry blossoms — / the pine in two trunks, three months on
Interlinear notes 1
一本擧白といふものゝせんへち云々トアリ
Another text has 「the parting gift of a man called Kyohaku」 and so on.