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From Back Roads to Far Towns
by Cid Corman and Kamaike Susume, Grossman Publishers, 1968.
Station 36 - Komatsu
And on the road this poem:
red red
sun unrelentingly
autumn's wind.
(July 25) At a place called Komatsu:
delicately
named Komatsu blowing
hagi/susuki.
Visited Tada Shrine here. Sanemori's helmet and part of his nishiki there.
In days of old, presented to him, as a member of the Genji, by his
commander Yoshitomo, it is said. Clearly not designed for a common
soldier. From eye-cover to ear-flap engraved with chrysanthemums
interlaced by ivy scrollwork, a dragon headpiece with hoe-shaped
frontlets attached. After Sanemori's death in battle, Kiso Yoshinaka
with message of prayer donated it to shrine, Higuchi Jiro his emissary:
can see them there even now as annals of shrine describe.
cruel!
under the helmet
cricket
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