A poem composed during the year when the Ise Shrine was renewed.[i]
| kamikaze ya asahi no miya no miya utsushi kage nodokanaru yo ni koso arikere | Divine winds blow O’er the shrine with the morning sun, The shrine reflecting A light as tranquil As the world![ii] |
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[i] The Grand Shrine at Ise was demolished and rebuilt approximately every twenty years. The occasion Sanetomo is referring to here took place in the Ninth Month, Jōgen 3 [1209] (Higuchi 2016, 188).
[ii] See: In reply. 神風やいすずかは浪かずしらずすむべきみよに又かへりこん kamikaze ya / isuzukawanami / kazu shirazu / sumubeki miyo ni / mata kaerikon ‘Divine winds blow / Waves upon the Isuzu River / In numbers unknown, / So bright this age that / Ever will I return.’ Supernumerary Master of the Crown Prince’s Household Kintsugu (Shinkokinshū XIX: 1874)
