Composed on the way:

 akaaka to                  Despite the red blaze
  hi wa tsurenaku mo       of the pitiless sun -
   aki no kaze                an autumn breeze.

At Komatsu [Young Pines]:

  shiorashiki                 An appealing name:
    na ya komatsu fuku      The wind in Young Pines ruffles
      hagi susuki             bush clover and miscanthus.

At Komatsu we visited Tada Shrine, which numbers among its treasures a helmet and a piece of brocade that once belonged to Sanemori. We were told that the helmet was a gift from Lord Yoshitomo in the old days when Sanemori served the Genji - and indeed it was no ordinary warrior's headgear From visor to earflaps, it was decorated with gold-filled chrysanthemum arabesque in the Chinese style, and the front was surmounted by a dragon's head and a pair of horns. The shrine history tells in vivid language of how Kiso no Yoshinaka presented a petition there after Sanemori's death in battle, and of how Higuchi no Jiro served as a messenger.

                muzan ya                  A heartrending sound!
        kabuto no shita no              Underneath the helmet
                kirigirisu                the cricket.