A Strong Tone II: Minamoto no Sanetomo (源 実朝)

Hail strikes
the warrior’s wrist guard
as he straightens his arrows
on the bamboo field of Nasu

mononofu no
yanami tsukurou
kote no ue ni
arare tabashiru
Nasu no shinohara

Shinto Temple Hachiman, at Kamakura, photograph ca. 1890, coll. New York Public Library.  Site of Sanetomo’s assassination, February 13, 1219.