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- Oku no Hosomichi - 奥の細道 - おくのほそ道
The Narrow Road to the Deep North -
. Oku no Hosomichi - 奥の細道 - Introduction .
1st of the Fifth month.
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- - - Station 15 - Iizuka 飯塚 - - -
I stopped overnight at Iizuka. I had a bath in a hot spring before I took shelter at an inn. It was a filthy place with rough straw mats spread out on an earth floor. They had to prepare my bed by the dim light of the fire, for there was not even a lamp in the whole house. A storm came upon us towards midnight, and between the noise of the thunder and leaking rain and the raids of mosquitoes and fleas, I could not get a wink of sleep. Furthermore, an attack of my old complaint made me so ill that I suffered severely from repeated attacks while I rode on horseback bound for the town of Kori. It was indeed a terrible thing to be so ill on the road, when there still remained thousands of miles before me, but thinking that if I were to die on my way to the extreme north it would only be the fulfillment of providence, I trod the earth as firmly as possible and arrived at the barrier-gate of Okido in the province of Date.
Tr. by Nobuyuki Yuasa
source : terebess.hu/english
其夜飯塚にとまる。温泉あれば湯に入て宿をかるに、土坐に筵を敷てあやしき貧家也。灯もなければゐろりの火かげに寝所をまうけて臥す。夜に入て雷鳴、雨しきりに降て、臥る上よりもり、蚤蚊にせゝられて眠らず。持病さへおこりて消入計になん。短夜の空もやう／＼明れば、又旅立ぬ。猶夜の余波心すゝまず、馬かりて桑折の駅に出る。遥なる行末をかゝえて、斯る病覚束なしといへど、羈旅辺土の行脚、捨身無常の観念、道路にしなん、是天の命なりと気力聊とり直し路縦横に踏で伊達の大木戸をこす。
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奥の細道絵巻-飯塚の里
- source : www.bashouan.com/OYemaki
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It was on the 1st of the Fifth month.
That night we stopped over at Iizuka. A hot spring is there, and we bathed and rented a room.
It was a crude, shabby place with straw mats covering a dirt floor. There wasn't even a lamp, so we bedded down by the light of a sunken fireplace. Night came, thunder rolled, rain poured down. The roof leaked over our heads and I was harrassed by fleas and mosquitoes.
My old illness too cropped up and I almost fainted.
Finally the sky of the short summer night began to lighten, and we set off once again.
But the night's afflictions stayed with me and my spirits would not rise. We borrowed a horse and headed for the post town of Koori. My distant journey remained, I was anxious about my illness, and yet this was a pilgrimage to far places, a resignation to self-abandonment and impermanence.
Death might come by the roadsice but that is heaven's will. With those thoughts my spirits recovered a bit, I began to step broadly on my way, and jauntily I passed through the Great Gate of Date.
- source : Barnhill
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