我がやどは雪降りしきて道もなし
踏み分けてとふ人しなければ
踏み分けてとふ人しなければ
- Roma-ji
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Waga yado wa yuki furishikite michi mo nashi
fumiwakete tou hito shi nakereba - English Translation
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at my humble dwelling
snow falls thick and deep, and now
no path can be seen—
for there is no one at all
to come and tread a way here
- Meaning
- At my dwelling, snow falls thick and deep, and no path remains—for there is no one who comes, treading a way to visit me.
- Commentary
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Book Six Winter Poems
The poem depicts a scene in which heavy snowfall has covered all paths from sight.
If people were passing by, a path would be formed by their footsteps. Yet no one comes, and thus the unbroken snow reflects the poet’s solitude. The quiet accumulation of snow mirrors the loneliness of a life without visitors.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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- even in this stream crimson leaves are flowing down— from the deep mountains the water from melting snow must now have greatly swelled
- my old dwelling lies so near to Mount Yoshino— not even a day passes without falling snow gracing it from the heavens
- when the snow falls down the grasses and hidden things that lie through winter— bear blossoms never seen in the coming days of springtime
- white snow falling down without choosing where it lies— covering all alike even upon the rocky crags it seems that flowers bloom there