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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 .
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Kamisaka Sekka 神坂雪佳 (1866-1942)
- - - Station 23 - Hiraizumi 平泉 - - -
It was here that the glory of three generations of the Fujiwara family passed away like a snatch of empty dream. The ruins of the main gate greeted my eyes a mile before I came upon Lord Hidehira's mansion, which had been utterly reduced to rice-paddies. Mount Kinkei alone retained its original shape. As I climbed one of the foothills called Takadate, where Lord Yoshitsune met his death, I saw the River Kitakami running through the plains of Nambu in its full force, and its tributary, Koromogawa, winding along the site of the Izumigashiro castle and pouring into the big river directly below my eyes.
The ruined house of Lord Yasuhira was located to the north of the barrier-gate of Koromogaseki, thus blocking the entrance from the Nambu area and forming a protection against barbarous intruders from the north. Indeed, many a feat of chivalrous valor was repeated here during the short span of the three generations, but both the actors and the deeds have long been dead and passed into oblivion. When a country is defeated, there remain only mountains and rivers, and on a ruined castle in spring only grasses thrive. I sat down on my hat and wept bitterly till I almost forgot time.
A thicket of summer grass
Is all that remains
Of the dreams and ambitions
Of ancient warriors.
I caught a glimpse
Of the frosty hair of Kanefusa
Wavering among
The white blossoms of unohana
- written by Sora
The interiors of the two sacred buildings of whose wonders I had often heard with astonishment were at last revealed to me. In the library of sutras were placed the statues of the three nobles who governed this area, and enshrined in the so called Gold Chapel were the coffins containing their bodies, and under the all-devouring grass, their treasures scattered, their jewelled doors broken and their gold pillars crushed, but thanks to the outer frame and a covering of tiles added for protection, they had survived to be a monument of at least a thousand years.
Even the long rain of May
Has left it untouched -
This Gold Chapel
Aglow in the sombre shade.
Tr. by Nobuyuki Yuasa
source : terebess.hu/english
三代の栄耀一睡の中にして、大門の跡は一里こなたに有。秀衡が跡は田野に成て、金鶏山のみ形を残す。先高館にのぼれば、北上川南部より流るゝ大河也。衣川は和泉が城をめぐりて高館の下にて、大河に落入。康衡等が旧跡は衣が関を隔て南部口をさし堅め、夷をふせぐとみえたり。偖も義臣すぐつて此城にこもり、功名一時の叢となる。国破れて山河あり。城春にして草青みたりと笠打敷て、時のうつるまで泪を落し侍りぬ。
夏草や兵どもが夢の跡 - natsukusa ya
卯の花に兼房みゆる白毛かな 曾良 - u no hana ni - Sora
兼て耳驚したる二堂開帳す。経堂は三将の像をのこし、光堂は三代の棺を納め、三尊の仏を安置す。七宝散うせて、珠の扉風にやぶれ、金の柱霜雪に朽て、既頽廃空虚の叢と成べきを、四面新に囲て、甍を覆て風雨を凌。暫時千歳の記念とはなれり。
五月雨の降のこしてや光堂 - samidare no furi nokoshite Hikari Doo
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夏草や兵どもが夢の跡
natsukusa ya tsuwamonodomo ga yume no ato
summer grass -
that's all that remains
of brave warriors' dreams
Tr. Gabi Greve
The "tsuwamono", Yoshitsune, his companion monk Benkei and the Fujiwara clan samurai
義経、弁慶、藤原
MORE - extensive discussion of this hokku
including many translated versions :
. WKD : Brave Warrior (tsuwamono) .
. 源の義経 Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - 1189) .
natsukusa, in my part of Japan, would be the all-encroaching
"summer weeds".
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Summer grasses —
all that remains of soldiers
ancient dreams
Basho stood at Takadashi Castle, recollecting the tragic death of the old soldier Yoshitsune.
Combining this with lines from Tu Fu’s poem A Spring View, which he incorporated into the text of his journal:
The nation broken and defeated
But mountains and rivers remain
Springtime at the old castle, grass deep.
- Tr. and Comment : Bill Wyatt
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五月雨の降りのこしてや光堂
samidare no furi nokoshite Hikari Doo
unchanged by the rain
of many rainy seasons -
the Golden Hall
Tr. Gabi Greve
Hikari doo 光堂 "the Shining Hall"
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Hiraizumi (平泉町, Hiraizumi-chō) is a town located in Nishiiwai District, Iwate, Japan.
It was the home of the Hiraizumi Fujiwaras for about 100 years in the late Heian era and most of the following Kamakura period. At the same time it served as the de facto capital of Oshu, an area containing nearly a third of the Japanese land area. At its height the population of Hiraizumi reached 50,000 or more than 100,000, rivaling Kyoto in size and splendor.
In about 1100, Fujiwara no Kiyohira moved his home from Fort Toyoda in present day Esashi Ward, Oshu City to Mount Kanzan in Hiraizumi.
Kiyohira built the large temple complex on Kanzan known as Chūson-ji 中尊寺 Chuson-Ji.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !
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- - - - - from the diary of Sora, written by Basho
蛍火の昼は消えつつ柱かな
hotarubi no hiru wa kie-tsutsu hashira kana
these pillars
getting paler like fireflies
during the daytime
Tr. Hideo Suzuki
like firefly light at noon
so too fades the luster
of these pillars!
Tr. Dennis Chibi
Written in the fourth lunar month, 元禄2年4月 at the Golden Hall in Hiraizumi.
Basho refers to the chippings of the gold foil at the pillars of the hall.
After enjoying the view in the samidare rain, he went inside and looked closely at the interior decoration in the mid-day gloom.
MORE - - hotaru 蛍 (ほたる) firefly, fireflies -
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .
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source : www.bashouan.com
Painting by Buson 蕪村筆「奥の細道画巻」
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source : www.iwanichi.co.jp
from a local newspaper in July 2013 - 緑のキャンバスに俳聖くっきり 平泉
Basho and Sora as "field art" 田んぼアート , rice art 「ライス・アート」
. WKD : Rice Field Art 田んぼアート tanbo aato .
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