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