Inscriptions

Poem 1: Katadasha aratame Kosenrou Rakuzumi:\r\nI wait and wait for a happy outcome to an affair I kept under wraps, wrapped up in the paper covering my pillow--will it come along with spring at daybreak?\r\n\r\n\r\nPoem 2: Yomo no Utagaki Magao:\r\nOn the lucky teabowl reflected in the pillowstand rising up like Fuji, a hawk, just in time to grace my first dreams of the new year\r\n\r\nAH 2/22/2018 rev. 3/23\r\nPoem 1: 片田舎改　壺泉楼　楽住　Katadasha aratame Kosenrou Rakuzumi \r\n(Kosenrou Rakuzumi changed from the former name Katadasha.)\r\n\r\n身能果報　待徒ゝ飛ち*を　枕紙　暁に春と　連て来つらん\r\n\r\nmi no kahou/ machi tsutsu hiji* wo/ makura gami/ akeji ni haru to (OR akatsuki ni su to)/ tsure te kitsu ran\r\n\r\n(To my luck, while waiting trying to make my arm as a pillow, I found a secret writing on the pillow cover paper. At dawn it may come along with the spring.)\r\n*hiji can be written in 秘事 or secret mater in addition to the meaning of "elbow".\r\n\r\nPoem 2：　四方歌垣　真顔　Yomo no Utagaki Magao\r\n\r\n富士形乃　枕尓うつ類　福茶碗　よき折鷹**能　春の者川夢\r\n\r\nfujigata no/ makura ni utsuru/ fuku jawan/ yoki ori taka no/ haru no hatsu yume\r\n\r\n(reflecting upon the lacquer pillow in the shape of Mount Fuji, what a good timing, a hawk arrived for the first dream of the spring.)\r\n**Goodluck dreams for the New Year's is first, Mount Fuji; second. a hawk; third, eggplants. Hawk is pronounced "taka" in Japanese and "yodaka" (or "yo taka") meaning a night hawk has a hidden meaning of prostitutes.\r\n\r\nOn the pillow paper the calligraphy written backwards states at the beginning: \r\n飛乃え祢の登し　の者る hi no e no toshi no haru (spring of the year 丙子1816）.\r\n\r\nEnglish tentative. SO 2-19-18\r\n\r\n