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MYS XX: 4372

On the fourteeth day of the Second Month, when Senior Assistant Lieutenant Okinagara no Mahito of the Senior Seventh Rank, Upper Grade, was sent to Kunishima as a gubernatorial messenger concerning the changing of the border guard in Hitachi province.

足柄の み坂給はり 返り見ず 我れは越え行く 荒し夫も 立しやはばかる 不破の関 越えて我は行く 馬の爪 筑紫の崎に 留まり居て 我れは斎はむ 諸々は 幸くと申す 帰り来までに

asigara no
misaka tamapari
kaperimizu
are pa kueyuku
arasi wo mo
tasi ya habakaru
puwa no seki
kuete wa pa yuku
muma no tume
tukusi no saki ni
timariwite
ware pa ipapamu
moromoro pa
sakeku to mawosu
kaperiku made
In Ashigara,
Misaka will I pass through
Never looking back
Will I go on;
A rough man
Cannot pass
The barrier of Fuwa
But I will go on;
My horse’s hooves
At the point of Tsukushi
Will I halt, and
There take my ease;
To all of you:
I wish you well
Until I return again!

 

GSIS IX: 514

When Lord [Minamoto no] Tameyoshi was posted to Mikawa as Governor, the party dismounted at the crossing of Sunomata, and while gazing at Misaka in Shinano, Nôin composed this.

白雲の上より見ゆるあしひきの山の高嶺やみさかなるらん

sirakumo no
uFe yori miyuru
asiFiki no
yama no takane ya
misaka naruran
Clouds of white:
Above them one sees,
Leg-wearying,
A high mountain peak:
Misaka, I’d say.

The Monk Nōin