“Poems for Meishu-sama’s Birthday Service (December 23, 1953)”
Poems in Chijôtengoku, Issue 56
January 25, 1954

　 　 　 　 　
　 七十年　振りさけみれば我過去　あまりに奇しくあまりに珍なる
397 　

How so miraculous,
How so solemn
My life
When I look back on
The past seventy years.

 #1, page 2, S6-425A 
　 　 　 　 　
　 　 人の世の　肇りてより例しなき　吾が運命をつくづく思ふも
398 　 Unparalleled since
The beginning of
Human history,
Keenly I feel
My destiny. 		 #2, page 2, S6-425B
　 　 　 　 　
　 　

救世の　神業日に日に進みゆき　やがて世界にどよめき渉らむ
399 　 Day by day
Advances the divine task
Of world salvation
Finally to resound
Throughout the world.		 #3, page 2, S6-425C
　 　 　 　 　
　 　

未だ目に　見えねど弥勒の聖代は　已に成りけり霊の世の奥
400 　 Though not yet visible
To the physical eye,
The sacred age of Maitreya
Even now is completed
In the deep recesses of the world of spirit. 		#4, page 2, S6-425D
　 　 　 　 　
　 　

我有てる　玉の光は日に月に　輝き増すなり心せよみな
401 　 Realize this all. The
Ball of light I
Have within me
Grows brighter day by
Day, month by month. 		#5, page 2, S6-426A
 
Alternative translation
Realize this / Everyone, / The ball of light I have / Within me grows brighter / Day by day, month by month.
　 　 　 　 　
　 　

黒幕を　サツと落せば我光　その眩ゆさに眼くらまん 
402 　 When the black
Curtain is suddenly
Dropped, the brilliance
Of my light will
Make people dizzy.  		#6, page 2, S6-426B
　 　 　 　 　
　 　 人間の　力と神の力の　異ひさ智慧もて計り得べしや
403 How can be measured
With human wisdom,
The difference between
The power of human beings
And the power of God?		 #7, page 3, S6-426C 
 
　 　 神秘なり　嗚呼神秘なり我因縁　口や筆もて表はす由なき
404 　 Mysterious, ah the
Divine mystery! There is simply
No means by which I can convey
My mission either through
Human speech or writing. 		 #8, page 3, S6-426D
 
夢とのみ　思ひし事もまざまざと　実となりぬこのごろの吾
405 These days I think of
Myself: what I had thought
Of as only a dream
Dazzingly has
Become a fact. 		 #9, page 3, S6-426E
 
さながらに　この世からなる天国と　見まごふばかり瑞雲郷かも
406 The Grounds of
Auspicious Clouds,
Mistaken can they be
For a paradise
Composed of this world.		 #10, page 3, S6-427A
 
幽幻微妙　深さも知らぬ神の謎　形となりて現れなんとすも
407 Mysterious and
Profound, with depths
Unimaginable,
Is the divine puzzle
About to take form.		 #11, page 3, S6-427B
 
　 あくがれの　地上天国今はしも　熱海の丘に立つぞ嬉しき
408 　

Joyful indeed that
Is being built upon
The hills of Atami
Now, the longed-for
Paradise on earth.

 #12, page 3, S6-427C
 
　 古へゆ　今の今まで夢とのみ　思ひしこの世の天国生まれぬ
409 　

In many past years
And in present times,
What was only thought
To be a dream, a paradise
Of this world is being born.

 #13, page 4, S6-427D
 
　 全世界　眼見瞠らむいと高き　美の天国は熱海に生まれし
410 　

A most noble
Paradise of beauty
Will be born in Atami,
Opening the eyes
Of the entire world.

 #14, page 4, S6-427E
 
　 日の本の　国の誇りと吾は今　箱根熱海に天国造りぬ
411 　

Constructing am I now
Paradise in
Hakone and Atami
Which will be the pride
Of the nation of the origin of the sun.

 #15, page 4, S6-428A
   
　 神業と　見るの外なし時の間に　成りぬ熱海の芸術の郷
412 　

A home of arts
In Atami before
Long will be
Completed, nothing
Other than divine workings.

 #16, page 4, S6-428B
 
　 海山の　景観を背に美の楽土　吾は造りぬ熱海の丘に
413 　

Behind the scenery of
The sea and mountains
I have constructed a
Heaven of beauty
On the Atami hills.

 #17, page 4, S6-428C
 
Previous translation, Sounds of the Dawn, Volume II, #187, pages 81 & 258.
 
Sounds of the Dawn translation
Against scenery / Of superb mountains and sea, / I have constructed / On a hill in Atami, / A paradise of beauty.
   
　 箱根熱海の　地上天国外国の　人は世界の名所と言ひける
414 　

People from abroad
Will call the paradises
On earth of Hakone and
Atami, wonders
Of the world.

 #18, page 4, S6-428D