チ-ちゃんさんの おぼえた日記 - 2016年5月29日(日)

佐倉宗吾の墓
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　There is a mountain temple in the domain of Yamagata called
the Ryushaku-ji.It was founded by the Great Teacher Jikaku,and
is a place noted for its tranquillity.People had urged us to go there"even for a brief look,"and we had turned back at Obanazawa to
make the journey,a distance of about fifteen miles.It was still
daylight when we arrived.After first reserving pilgrim's lodgings at the foot of the mountain,we climbed to the temple itself at the summit.Boulders piled on boulders had created this mountain,and the pines and cedars on its slopes were old.The earth and stones were worm and slippery with moss.At the summit the doors of the temple buildings were all shut,and not a sound could be heard.
Circling around the cliffs and crawling over the rocks,we reached
the main temple building.In the splendor of the scene and the
silence I felt a wonderful peace penetrate my heart.

How still it is here----
Stinging into the stones,
The locusts' trill.


＜立石寺＞
　山形領に立石寺と云山寺あり。慈覚大師の開基にして、殊清閑の地也。
一見すべきよし、人々のすすむるに依て、尾花沢よりとつて返し、其間
七里ばかり也。日いまだ暮ず。麓の坊に宿かり置て、山上の堂にのぼる。
岩に巌を重て山とし、松栢年旧、土石老て苔滑に、岩上の院々扉を閉て、
物の音きこえず。岸をめぐり、岩を這て、仏閣を拝し、佳景寂蒔として
心すみ行のみおぼゆ。

　　　　　　閑さや岩にしみ入蝉の声