Gassan and Yudono月山·湯殿
1Gassan — eight ri over ice and snow
八日月山にのぼる木綿しめ身に引つけ寶冠に頭を包み强力といふ者に道びかれて雲霧山氣の中に氷雪をふんでのぼる事八里さらに日月の道の雲關に入かとあやしまれ息絕身凍へて頂上にいたれば日沒て月顯る笹を敷篠を枕として臥て明るを待つ日出で雲消ゆればゆどのに下る谷の坊に鍛冶小屋といふ有り此國のかぢ靈水を撰て潔齋して劔を打ち終に月山と銘を切て世に賞せらる彼龍泉に劔を淬とかや干將莫耶のむかしをしたふ道に堪能の執あさからぬ事しられたり
On the eighth day I climbed Gassan. I wound cords of cotton about me and wrapped my head in the hōkan, the jeweled crown, and a man called a gōriki led me. Through cloud and mist and mountain air I climbed over ice and snow for eight ri. I began to wonder whether I was entering the cloud barrier where the sun and the moon go by. My breath gave out and my body froze, and when I reached the summit the sun had set and the moon had risen.
I spread bamboo grass and made a pillow of the stalks, and lay down to wait for the light. The sun came up, the clouds cleared, and I went down to Yudono.
In a lodging in the valley there is a place called the smithy. The smiths of this province choose the holy water, purify themselves, and forge their swords. In the end they cut the name 「Gassan」 into them, and the world praises them. It was at Longquan, they say, that swords were tempered in the water. They long for the old days of Gan Jiang and Mo Ye. One sees that the devotion of a man who is master of a single way is no shallow thing.
Interlinear notes 1
一本撰てノ下こゝにトアリ
Another text has 「こゝに」 after 「撰て」.
2Late cherry under the snow, and the verses of the three mountains
岩に腰をかけてしばし休らふほど三尺ばかりなる櫻のつぼみ半開けるありふりつむ雪の下に埋れて春をわすれぬ遲ざくらの花の心わりなし炎天の梅花こゝにかほるがごとし行尊僧正のうたもこゝにおもひ出て猶まさりて覺ゆすべて此山中の微細行者の法式として他言する事を禁ずよりて筆をとゞめて記さず坊にかへれば阿闍梨の需に依て三山順禮の句々たんざくに書く 凉しさやほのみか月の羽黑山 雲のみね幾つくづれて月の山 語られぬ湯殿にぬらす袂哉 湯どの山錢ふむ道の泪哉曾良
While I sat on a rock and rested a little, there was a cherry tree about three feet high with its buds half open. Buried under the piled snow, the heart of this late cherry had not forgotten the spring, and it moved me. The plum blossom under a burning sky seemed to be fragrant here. The poem of the high priest Gyōson came to mind here as well, and it felt stronger still.
As for what is done within this mountain, the rule of the ascetics forbids telling it to others. So I lay down my brush and do not write it. When I returned to the lodging, at the request of the Ajari I wrote out on strips of poem paper the verses of my pilgrimage to the three mountains.
The coolness — / the faint crescent moon over Mount Haguro
Peaks of cloud — / how many crumbled away to make Gassan, the mountain of the moon
Not to be spoken of — / and my sleeves are wet at Yudono
Mount Yudono — / treading upon the coins, the tears along the road — Sora
Interlinear notes 2
一本句をトアリ
Another text has 「句を」.
一本付すトアリ
Another text has 「付す」.