Poems in Chijôtengoku, Issue 35
April 25, 1952

　 　 　 　 　
　 吾は 今　広き世界に二つとて　なき美の館造らんとすも
55 　

I am now setting out
To construct two
Palaces of beauty,
Unparalleled in
This wide world. 

 #1, page 2, S6-207C
　 　 　 　 　
　 　 天然の　美を思ふさま生かしつつ　人工の美を添ゆる神苑 
56 　 The divine garden vitalizes
What is thought to be
The beauty of the state of
Nature and incorporates beauty
Fashioned by human beings.		 #2, page 2, S6-212C 
 
S5-107C 天然の　風致を生かし人工の　美に彩りて神苑成りぬ In a set of poems dated August 18, 1949, and titled “Shinsenkyo” in Collection of Akemaro’s Recent Compositions, #452, page 81, November 30, 1949; previous translation, Sounds of the Dawn, Volume II, #178, pages 78 & 251. 
 
S5-107C translation
Vitalizing the scenic / Beauty of nature and / Coloring the beauty fashioned / By human beings / Is made the divine garden.
 
Sounds of the Dawn translation
Within these gardens / The great beauty of Nature / Is made the most of, / And for a perfect balance / Man-made beauty is added.
　 　 　 　 　
　 　

宗教の　教のみにて今の世の　人救はんとするも詮なし
57 　 Futile is the attempt
To save the people
Of the world these
Days using only
Religious teachings.		 #3, page 2, S6-208B
　 　 　 　 　
　 　

学問も　教も法も刈菰の　紊れたる世をなど救得めや
58 　 How can this cluttered,
Confused world be saved
With academic theories,
Educational instruction,
Or legal systems?  		#4, page 2, S6-208C
 
How can it be possible
that this messed, disarrayed world
like a clothes basket
be saved by scholarship,
teachings or the code? 		April 4.2012 by taki
　 　 　 　 　
　 　

力なり　嗚呼力なり真なる　神の力に頼る外なき
59 　 Power, ah power!
Nothing is there
Otherwise but to
Depend on the
True power of God.  		#5, page 2, S6-208D 
　 　 　 　 　
　 　

万人の　恐るる原子爆弾も　神の光に遭へば消ゆめり
60 　 Even the atomic
Bomb, much feared
By millions, disappears
When it encounters
The light of God.
#6, page 2, S6-208E
　 　 　 　 　
　 　 戦ひも　病も貧も何かせむ　神の力を受くる我身は
61 Receive I physically and
Spiritually God’s power
Whether in the face
Of conflict, sickness,
Or even poverty.
 #7, page 3, S6-209A 
   
　 　 絶対の　神力受くる吾にして　天国造るもいと易けかり
62 　 Effortless it is
To construct paradise
On earth for me
Who receives the
Absolute power of God.		 #8, page 3, S6-209B
 
時なれや　嗚呼時なれや神力を　揮ふも時の来つればなりけり
63 Time it is, ah, time
It is, the time it is
Even for God’s
Power to
Be wielded.		 #9, page 3, S6-209C
 
我眼には　先の先まで映るなり　されど打明け難き苦しさ
64 To my eyes is shown
What is ahead of
What is ahead;
How difficult it is lay
Bare my feelings. 		#10, page 3, S6-209D
 
今暫し　待て信徒よ夢にだも　思えぬ幸の近めばなりけり
65 Followers, wait just
A moment! The happiness
That was thought to be
Just a dream
Is just around the corner.		 #11, page 3, S6-209E
    
天国は　先づ我教の庭近く　已に来つるも喜べよ悉
66 One and all! Be
Pleased that heaven
First will soon
Appear close to
The garden of my precepts.		 #12, page 3, S6-210A