Komatsu小松
1At a place called Komatsu
小松といふ所にて しほらしき名や小松吹萩薄
At a place called Komatsu
What a lovely name — / bush clover and pampas grass blowing at Komatsu, the little pine
2Sanemori's helmet — ah, how pitiful
此所太田の神社に詣づさねもりが甲錦の切あり徃昔源氏に屬せし時義朝公よりたまはらせ給ふとかやけにも平氏の物にあらず目庇より吹返しまで菊唐草のほりもの金をちりばめ龍頭に鍬形打たり貞盛討死の後木曾義仲願狀にそへて此社にこめられ侍るよし樋口の次郞が使せし事共まのあたり緣起に見へたり むさんやな甲の下のきり〴〵す
I paid my respects at the Ōta Shrine of this place. Sanemori's helmet is there, and a piece of brocade. Long ago, when he belonged to the Genji, he received them from Lord Yoshitomo, they say. Indeed it is no common thing of the Heishi, the Taira. From the visor to the turned-back flanges it is carved with a chrysanthemum arabesque and inlaid with gold, and a kuwagata crest is set on the dragon head.
That after Sanemori fell in battle Kiso Yoshinaka offered it to this shrine along with a written prayer, and that Higuchi no Jirō carried the errand — these things are written in the engi, the record of the shrine, so plainly that one seems to see them.
Ah, how pitiful — / a cricket beneath the helmet