Mitsuzaki kengyo biography

Whence the seed
Of these floating weeds
Grown thick
In ridges of waves?
What is their seed?

The story of Komachi in Soshiarai (1)
Has a special quality to it.
But closer to the heart of things
Is the story of Captain Fukakusa
And the one hundred nights
He waited in vain at her doorstep.
If the sun shines brightly
Because the name of our country
Is Hinomoto, the rising sun
Then what about Amegashita (2)?
Water flows quickly down
As does the heart

To a hermitage in Mount Osaka
At the Temple of Seki.
Whether Komachi in a cottage
Or out among the holy wooden tablets,
The girl of great beauty
Once had many suitors

Now shamed by age
In the field of Ichiwara
Komachi prays
To the Merciful Goddess
Kannon at the Kiyomizu Temple,
Whose divine grace shines purely.

The olden days
Have never changed
In my memory.
The bamboo screen
Inside the palace-
How I yearn for it,
How I yearn for it.

(1) A no play entitled Soshiarai-komachi which deals with an episode