Hiraizumi平泉
1Ishinomaki — that I should come even to such a place
十二日平泉と心さしあねはのまつ緖だへの橋など聞傳へて人跡まれに雉兎蒭蕘の行かふ道そこともわかず終に道ふみたがへて石の卷といふ湊に出づこかね花さくとよみて奉たる金花山海上に見渡し數百の廻船入江につたひ人家地を爭てかまどのけふり立つゝけたり思ひかけず斯る所にも來れる哉と宿からんとすれどさらに宿かす人なし漸くまどしき小家に一夜をあかして明れば又しらぬ道まどひ行く袖のわたり尾ぶちの牧まのゝかや原などよそめに見て遙なる堤を行く心ぼそき長沼にそふて戶伊麻といふ所に一宿して平泉に至るその間廿余里ほどゝ覺ゆ
On the twelfth I set my heart on Hiraizumi. I had heard of the pine of Aneha and the Odae Bridge and the rest, and went to find them, but there were few human traces, and the paths were those that hunters of pheasant and hare and cutters of wood and grass go by, so I could not tell one place from another. In the end I took the wrong road and came out at a harbor called Ishinomaki.
Mount Kinka, of which the poem presented to the throne said that golden flowers bloom there, could be seen across the sea. Several hundred cargo ships lay side by side in the inlet, the houses fought each other for ground, and the smoke of the kitchen fires rose without a break. That I should have come even to such a place, I thought, and I tried to find lodging, but there was no one at all who would take me in. At last I passed a night in a wretched little house, and when day broke I went wandering again on roads I did not know.
I saw Sode no Watari, the pasture of Obuchi, the reed plain of Mano, and the rest out of the corner of my eye as I went along a far-stretching embankment. I followed the lonely Naganuma, lodged a night at a place called Toima, and came to Hiraizumi. The distance, I think, was something over twenty ri.
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一本つどひトアリ
Another text has 「つどひ」.
一本ほどノ二字ナシ
Another text does not have the two characters 「ほど」.
2The glory of three generations, the space of one sleep
三代の榮耀一睦のうちにして大門のあとは一里こなたに有りひでひらが跡は田野に成て金鷄山のみ形を殘す先たかだちにのぼれば北上川南部より流るゝ大河也衣河は和泉か城をめぐりて高舘の下にて大河に落入る康衡等か舊跡は衣か關を停て南部口をさしかため痍をふせぐと見へたり偖も義心勝つて此城にこもり功名一時のくさむらとなる國破れて山河あり城春にして草靑みたりと笠うち敷て時のうつるまで泪を落し侍りぬ 夏草や兵どもが夢の跡 卯花に兼房みゆる白毛哉曾良
The glory of three generations was the space of one sleep, and the traces of the great gate lie a ri this side of it. Hidehira's site has turned to fields, and only Mount Kinkei keeps its shape.
First I climbed Takadachi. The Kitakami River is a great river flowing down from Nanbu. The Koromo River goes round the castle of Izumi and falls into the great river below Takadachi. The old site of Yasuhira and the rest seems to have held the Koromo Barrier between and barred the way to Nanbu, to keep off the barbarians.
And so those who excelled in righteous heart shut themselves in this castle and won their fame, and in a moment that fame became a thicket of grass. "The country is broken, yet the mountains and rivers remain. Spring comes to the castle, and the grass is green," I said, and I spread my hat beneath me and sat, letting the tears fall until the hours had passed.
Summer grass — / all that is left of the warriors' dreams
In the white deutzia flowers / I see Kanefusa, his white hair — Sora
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睡ノ誤リナリ
The 「睦」 of 「一睦」 is an error for 「睡」.
一本ありてトアリ
Another text has 「ありて」.
夷ノ誤リナリ
「痍」 is an error for 「夷」.
が一本のトアリ
In another text 「が」 is written 「の」.
3The Hikaridō — the rains left it alone
兼て耳驚したる二堂開帳す經堂は三將の像をのこし光堂は三代の棺ををさめ三尊の佛を安置す七寶ちりうせて玉の扉風にやぶれ金のはしら露霜に朽て既頽廢空虛の叢と成べきを四面新に圍て甍を覆ひて風雨を凌ぎ暫時千歲のかたみとはなれり 五月雨のふりのこしてや光堂
The two halls I had heard of with wonder were opened. The Kyōdō, the hall of the sutras, keeps the images of the three generals, and the Hikaridō, the hall of light, holds the coffins of the three generations and enshrines three sacred images. The seven treasures were scattered and lost, the jeweled doors broken by the wind, the golden pillars rotted by dew and frost, and it was ready to fall into an empty thicket. But the four sides were newly enclosed and a tiled roof was put over it against the wind and rain, and for a while it has become a memorial of a thousand years.
The summer rains — / did they leave this one place alone? The Hikaridō
Interlinear notes 1
イラカ
「甍」 is read iraka.