Tsuruga敦賀
1To Tsuruga — looking for the first wild geese
白根がだけかくれて比那か島顯はるあさむつの橋をわたりて玉江の芦は穗に出にけり鶯のせきを越え湯尾峠をこゆれば燧が城歸山に初雁を尋て十四日の夕ぐれつるがの津に宿を求む
Mount Shirane was hidden and Mount Hina came into view. I crossed the Asamuzu Bridge, and the reeds of Tamae had put out their ears. I passed the Uguisu Barrier and crossed the Yunoo Pass, and at the castle of Hiuchi and on Mount Kaeru I looked for the first wild geese, and on the evening of the fourteenth I sought lodging at the port of Tsuruga.
Interlinear notes 1
嵩ノ誤リナリ
The 島 of 比那か島 is an error for 嵩.
2The sand carrying of the Yugyō, and rain on the night of the full moon
その夜月晴たり明日の夜もかく有るべきにやといへば越路の習猶あすの夜の晴陰はかりがたしとあるじに酒すゝめられて氣比の明神に夜參す仲哀天皇の御廟なり社頭神さびて松の木の間に月のもり入たるおまへの白砂霜を敷るが如しそのかみ遊行二世の上人大願發起の事ありてみづから艸を刈り土石を荷へ泥濘をかはかせて參詣往來の煩なし古例今にたへず神前に眞砂を荷ひ給ふこれを遊行の砂持と申侍ると亭にて 月淸し遊行のもてる砂の上 十五日亭主のことばにたがはす雨降る 名月や北國日和さだめなき
That night the moon was clear. "Will tomorrow night be like this too, I wonder?" I said. "It is the way of the northern road — whether tomorrow night is clear or clouded is hard to reckon," said the host, and he pressed wine on me.
I made a night visit to Kehi Myōjin. It is the mausoleum of Emperor Chūai. The front of the shrine was awesome with age, and the moonlight leaked in between the pines, and the white sand before the sanctuary was as though frost had been spread over it.
"Long ago the Yugyō Shōnin of the second generation raised a great vow, and cut the grass with his own hands and carried earth and stones and dried up the mire, so that those who came and went to worship had no trouble. That old usage has not ceased even now, and they carry fine sand to the sanctuary. This is called the sand carrying of the Yugyō," I heard at the inn.
The moon is clear / on the sand the Yugyō Shōnin carried
On the fifteenth, just as the host had said, rain fell.
The harvest moon — / in the north country the weather is never sure
Interlinear notes 1
一本侍ると亭主の語りけるトアリ
Another text has 侍ると亭主の語りける.