On the way to hot springs at Yamanaka saw as we went Mt. Shirane just behind. At foot of mountain to left a Kannondo. The retired Emperor Kazan, after pilgrimage to the Thirty-Three Temples, had an image of Daiji Daihi enshrined here and named the place Nata, it is said. The name, it is also said, comes from kanji taken from Nachi and Tanigumi. All kinds of oddshaped rocks abound and ancient pines among them; small kaya- thatched temple there, handsomely situated.

Ishiyama
stones no whiter
autumn's wind

(July 27-August 5 or 6) Bathed at the hot springs. Their efficacy said to be nearly up to Ariake's

Yamanaka (ya
leave kiku unplucked
redolent water

Our host here, known as Kumenosuke, a mere lad, whose father doted on haikai and who so embarrassed Teishitsu of Raku when he visited here as a young man at the art that when he returned to Raku he became a disciple of Teitoku and thus gained renown. Because of the earlier occasion, however, when he later came as judge, they say, he refused payment here. This has already become legend.

Sora, stomach ailing, went off to relatives at Nagashima in Ise, writing down:

walking on and on
though stricken quite
hagi fields.

Pain of one who goes, emptiness of one left behind, like the parting of a pair of wild geese, lost in clouds. And I too:

from this day forth
efface the inscription
kasa's dew.