Kisakata象潟
1Kisakata — if the rain too is a wonder
江山水陸の風光數をつくして今きさかたに方寸をせめ酒田のみなとより東北の方山をこへ磯を傳ひ砂をふみて其際十里日影やゝ傾く頃汐風眞砂をふき上もうろうとして鳥海の山かくる闇中に莫作して雨も又奇也とせば雨後の晴色又たのもしと蜑のとまやに膝を容て雨のはるゝを待つ
I had seen the beauty of rivers and mountains, of water and land, past counting, and now my heart was set on Kisakata. From the harbor of Sakata I went to the northeast, crossed a mountain, followed the rocky shore, and walked the sand; the distance is ten ri.
As the sun began to sink a little, a wind off the tide blew the fine sand up, and all grew dim, and Mount Chōkai was hidden. I felt my way in the darkness. If one says "the rain too is a wonder," then the clear light after the rain is also to be trusted, and so I pushed my knees into a fisherman's hut of reeds and waited for the rain to clear.
Interlinear notes 1
め一本むトアリ
In 「せめ」 another text has 「む」 for 「め」.
2Nōin Island and the cherry tree of the priest Saigyō
その朝そらよく霽れ朝日はなやかにさし出るほとに象潟の渚に舟をうかぶ先能因島に舟をよせて三年幽居の跡をとぶらひむかふの岸に舟をあかれば花の上こぐとよまれしさくらの老木西行法師のかたみを殘す江上に御陵あり神功皇宮の御墓といふ寺を干滿珠寺をといふ此ところに行幸ありし事いまだ聞かずいかなる事にや
The next morning the sky cleared well, and as the morning sun came up bright I put a boat out on the water of Kisakata. First I brought the boat to Nōin Island and visited the traces of the three years he lived hidden there. I took the boat up on the far shore, and there stands the old cherry tree of the poem, "they row above the flowers," left as a keepsake of the priest Saigyō.
On the shore there is an imperial tomb. They say it is the grave of Empress Jingū. The temple is called Kanmanjuji. I have never yet heard that she made a progress to this place. How can that be?
Interlinear notes 2
一本渚ノ字ナシ
Another text does not have the character 「渚」.
后ノ誤リナリ
In 「神功皇宮」 the character 「宮」 is an error for 「后」.
3Matsushima seems to laugh, Kisakata to reproach
此寺の方丈に座して簾を捲ば風景一眼の中に盡て南に鳥海天をさゝへ其蔭うつりて江にあり西はむや〳〵の關路をかぎり東に堤を築て秋田にかよふ道遙に海北に構へて浪うち入る所を汐ごしといふ江の縱橫一里ばかり俤松島にかよひてまたことなり松島は笑ふが如く象潟はうらむるがごとし寂しさに悲しみを加へて地勢魄をなやますに似たり 象潟や雨に西施かねぶのはな 汐越や鶴脛ぬれて海涼し 象がたや料理何くふ神祭曾良 蜑の家や戶板を敷て夕すゞみみのゝ商人 岩上にみさこの巢を見る 浪こへぬ契ありてや雎鳩のす曾良
I sat in the abbot's room of this temple and rolled up the blind, and the whole view came into one glance. To the south Mount Chōkai holds up the sky, and its shadow falls upon the bay. To the west the Muyamuya Barrier closes the road. To the east a bank has been raised, and the road to Akita stretches far. The sea lies to the north, and the place where the waves come in is called Shiokoshi. The bay is about one ri across each way.
It is like Matsushima in its look, and yet it is not the same. Matsushima seems to laugh; Kisakata seems to reproach. To its loneliness it adds sorrow, and the lie of the land is like something that troubles the soul.
Kisakata — / Xi Shi in the rain, the silk tree in flower
Shiokoshi — / the crane's shins are wet, and the sea is cool
Kisakata — / what do they eat at the feast? the festival of the gods — Sora
A fisherman's house — / they lay the door boards down and take the evening cool — a merchant of Mino
On a rock I saw an osprey's nest
Is there a promise the waves will not cross it? the osprey's nest — Sora
Interlinear notes 1
一本中にノ二字ナシ
Another text does not have the two characters 「中に」.