Magnificence of three generations "gone as in a sleep" and shambles of great outer gate one li this side of what was. Where Hidehira's seat was, now largely empty fields and only Mt. Kinkei unchanged. Climbing to Takadachi discovered the Kitakami a large stream flowing from region of Nambu. The Koromogawa, encircling Izumi Castle, below Takadachi, empties into the larger stream. The ancient ruins of Yasuhira and others, with the Koromo Barrier between, fortifying entrance into Nambu, seem to have guarded against Ezo people. For all that, the faithful retainers, the elite, were confined to the castle, their moment of valiant effort so much grass. "The country devastated, mountains and rivers remain; in the castle in spring the grass green" remembered and we set our hats under us and sat there for a time and tears came.

summer grass
warriors
dreams' ruins

in unohana
Kanefusa appearing
whitehaired
(Sora)

The temple halls we'd heard of, open. The kyodo contains images of the Three Generals and the hikarido coffins of the three generations and enshrines the three images of Buddha. The Seven Gems now gone, jewelled doors rent by winds, gilded pillars fretted by frost and snow, would have all been long since destroyed and back to grass but for reinforced walls on four sides and a cover over tiled roof against wind and rain. So it still stands, memorial of a thousand years past.

May rains
falling may have left
hikarido