From a hundred poem sequence composed at the house of the Lay-Priest and former Regent.
神風やいすゞのかはの宮ばしらいくちよすめとたちはじめけん
| kami kaze ya isuzu no kawa no miyabashira iku chi yo sume to tachihajimeken |
Is it the Gods’ own wind? By the river Isuzu The shrine pillars-gods all- Will stand for many thousand years- Starting to stir the waters? |
Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office Toshinari
藤原俊成
Composed on seeing the moon, when he had gone to Tsukiyomi Shrine in Ise on a pilgrimage.
さやかなるわしのたかねの雲井よりかげやはらぐる月よみのもり
| sayakanaru washi no takane no kumoi yori kage yawaraguru tsukiyomi no mori |
How clear, From the eagles’ lofty peak Through the clouds A gentle light upon The forest of Tsukiyomi. |
The Monk Saigyō
西行
When the Regent and Grand Minister was a Colonel, he went to the Grand Shrine as an Imperial Messenger, Sada’ie accompanied him and composed this at the Outer Shrine.
契ありてけふみやがはのゆふかづらながきよまでもかけてたのまん
| chigiri arite kyô miyagawa no yû kazura nagaki yo made mo kakete tanoman |
It must be fate- On this day by the sacred river’s Barken garlands, ‘For as long as they should Hang there,’ is my plea. |
Fujiwara no Sada’ie
藤原定家
After he had left Mount Takano, he went to Futamigaura in the province of Ise and, hearing that the sacred mountain in the Grand Shrine was called the Mountain of the Divine Way, he composed this, feeling that Dainichi Nyorai had manifested there.
深くいりて神路の奧を尋ぬれば又うゑもなき峰のまつ風
| Fukaku irite kamudi no woku tadunureba mata uwe mo naki mine no matu kaze |
If to the heights Of the Divine Way One were to tread, Still-with nought above The peak-’twould be the pine-tree wind that blows. |
The Monk En’i
Composed in the conception of the moon over a shrine, at the same poetry competition.
ふりにける松物いはゞとひてまし昔もかくや住の江の月
| Furinikeru matu mono iFaba toFitemasi mukasi mo kaku ya sumi no e no tuki |
The ancient Pines-if only they could speak! For I would ask, Of old was it as bright: The moon on Sumiyoshi Bay? |
The Minister of the Right [Fujiwara no Sanesada]