A poem composed on seeing the lake at Hakone when I had made a pilgrimage to the twin shrines[i] the following year.[ii]
玉くしげはこねのみ海けけれあれやふたくにかけてなかにたゆたふ
| tamakushige hakone no miumi kekere are ya futakuni kakete naka ni tayutou | A jewelled comb, The fair waters of Hakone, Must have a heart, indeed, to Lie between two provinces, There adrift…[iii] |
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[i] Hakone and Izu Shrines.
[ii] The reference here is obscure, but may refer to Sanetomo’s third pilgrimage to these shrines, which took place in the First Month, Kenryaku 3 [late January 1213] (Higuchi 2016, 182).
[iii] See: A song from Kai. かひがねをさやにも見しがけけれなくよこほりふせるさやの中山 kai ga ne o / saya ni mo mishi ga / kekerenaku / yokohori fuseru / saya no nakayama ‘The peaks of Kai / Clearly I would behold, but / Heartless, / You lie in my way, / O, Saya-no-Nakayama!’ Anonymous (Kokinshū XX: 1097)
