Matsushima松島
1Hiring a boat for Matsushima
日既に午に近し舟をかりて松島に渡る其間二里餘雄じまの礒につく
The day was already near noon. I hired a boat and crossed to Matsushima. It is a little more than two ri. I landed on the rocky shore of Ojima.
2The finest view in Fusō
抑事ふりにたれど松島は扶桑第一の好風にして凡洞庭西湖をはぢず東南より海入て江の中三里浙江の潮をたゝゆ島々の數を盡して欹ものは天を指ふすものは波に圃匐あるは二重にかさなり三重にたゝみて左にわかれ右に連る負るあり抱あり兒孫を愛するがごとし松のみどり濃に枝葉汐風に吹たはめて屈曲をのづからためたるがごとし其けしき窅然として美人の顏を粧ちはやぶる神の昔大やまずみのなせるわざにや造化の天工いづれの人か筆を揮ひ詞をつくさん
It is an old thing to say, but Matsushima is the finest view in Fusō, the land of the rising sun, and on the whole it need not be ashamed before Lake Dongting or the West Lake. From the southeast the sea comes in, and within the bay it is three ri, brimming with the tide of Zhejiang.
The islands are past all counting. Those that stand up point at the sky, those that lie down crawl on the waves. Some are piled two deep and folded three deep, parting to the left and joining on the right. Some carry others on their backs and some hold them in their arms, as though they loved their children and grandchildren.
The green of the pines is deep, and their boughs and leaves are bent by the salt wind, so that their crooked shapes seem to have been trained of themselves. The scene is dim and lovely, like a beautiful woman with her face made up. Was it the work of Ōyamazumi in the days of the awesome gods? What man could take up a brush or spend his words on this craft of the creator's own hand?
Interlinear notes 2
にヲ落セシナラン
In 「海入て」 a 「に」 has probably been dropped.
匍ノ誤リナリ
The 「圃」 of 「圃匐」 is an error for 「匍」.
3The moon at Ojima
雄島がいそは地づつきて海に出たる島也雲居禪師の別室の跡坐禪の石など有りはた松の木陰に世をいとふ人もまれ〳〵見へ侍りて落穗松笠などうち烟たる艸の庵しづかにすみなしいかなる人ともしられずなから先懷敷立寄るほどに月海にうつりて晝のなかめ又改む江上にかへりて宿を求れば窓をひらき二階をつくりて風雲の中に旅寢するこそあやしき迄妙なる心地はせらるれ 松島や露に身をかれ時鳥曾良
The rocky shore of Ojima is an island joined to the land and running out into the sea. There are the traces of Zen Master Ungo's retreat and the stone where he sat in meditation, and the rest. Here and there in the shade of the pines a few people who had turned from the world could be seen, living quietly in grass huts where the smoke rose from burning fallen ears of grain and pine cones. What sort of people they were I could not know, but longing drew me toward them first of all, and while I was going there the moon came out upon the sea and the view of the daytime was made new again.
Sora and I went back to the shore and asked for lodging. The windows opened wide and the house was built with an upper floor, so that we slept as travelers in the midst of wind and cloud, and the feeling of it was strange and wonderful.
Matsushima — / borrow the dew for a body, cuckoo — Sora
Interlinear notes 1
一本はトアリ
Another text has one more 「は」.
4I shut my mouth and could not sleep
予は口を閉て眠らんとしてねられず舊庵をわかるゝ時素堂松島の詩有原安適松がうら島の和歌を送らる袋をといてこよひの友とす且杉風濁子が發句あり
I shut my mouth and tried to sleep, but sleep would not come. When I left my old hut, Sodō gave me a poem on Matsushima, and Hara Anteki sent a waka on Matsugaurashima. I untied my bag and made them my companions for the night. There were opening verses too from Sanpū and Jokushi.
5Zuiganji
十一日端岩寺に詣當寺三十二世のむかし眞壁の平四郞出家して入唐歸朝の後開山す雲居禪師の德化によりて七堂いから改りて金壁壯嚴光かゝやき佛土成就の大伽藍とはなれりける彼見佛聖の寺はいづくにやと慕はる
On the eleventh day I worshipped at Zuiganji. Thirty-two generations ago, Heishirō of Makabe took vows, went to Tang, and after he came home again he founded this temple. Through the teaching of Zen Master Ungo the tiles of the seven halls were made new, and the golden walls shine in their splendor, and it has become a great monastery, a Buddha land brought to completion. Where, I wondered longingly, is the temple of that holy man Kenbutsu?