Sendai仙臺
1Sendai — The Day of the Sweet Flag
名取川渡りて仙台に入るあやめふく日也旅宿を求めて四五日逗留す
I crossed the Natori River and entered Sendai. It was the day when sweet flag is set in the eaves. I found an inn and stayed four or five days.
2Kaemon the Painter
ここに畫工加右衞門といふものあり聊心あるものと聞て知る人に成る此者年頃さだかならぬ名跡を考置き侍ればとて一日案內すみやぎ野のはぎしげりあひて秋のけしきおもひやらるゝ玉田橫野のつゝじか岡はあぜひさく頃なり日影ももらぬ松の林に入てこゝを木の下といふとぞむかしもかく露深けれはこそみさふらひみかさとはよみたれ藥師堂天神のみやしろなど拜みてその日はくれぬ
Here there is a painter named Kaemon. I had heard he was a man of some feeling, and we came to know each other. This man said, "For years I have been looking into old sites whose whereabouts are not certain," and he guided me for a day.
The bush clover of Miyagino grew thick, and one could picture the look of it in autumn. At Tamada, Yokono, and Tsutsujigaoka the andromeda was in flower. I went into a pine wood so thick that no sunlight leaked through, and they told me this place is called Kinoshita, Under the Trees. In the old days too the dew must have lain deep here, and that is why the poem was made, "You who attend him, his hat." I worshipped at the Yakushidō and the shrine of Tenjin and the rest, and that day came to its end.
3Sweet Flag on the Sandal Cords
猶松島鹽がまの所々畫にかきて送るかつ紺のそめ緖つけたるわらつ一足餞すさればこそ風流のしれものこゝにいたりてその實をあらはす あやめ草足に結ばん草鞋の緖
Besides this he painted the various places of Matsushima and Shiogama and sent them to me, and he gave me at parting a pair of straw sandals with cords dyed dark blue. Here indeed was a man mad for elegance, and in this he showed what he was made of.
The sweet flag — / I will tie it to my feet as the cords of my sandals