classic waka stream

白山に降りにし雪のあと絶えて
今はこし路の人も通はず
Roma-ji

Shirayama ni furinishi yuki no ato taete ima wa Koshiji no hito mo kayowazu

English Translation
On Shirayama
the snow has fallen and the
tracks are gone; and now
no one comes along the road
of Koshi, the road once come
Meaning
On Shirayama the snow has fallen and the tracks are gone, and now no one comes along the Koshi road — the road he once came by.
Commentary
95 No One Comes by the Koshi Road

This too concerns the Lady of the Bedchamber of Sanjō, a daughter of the Minister of the Right of Sanjō. After the emperor's death the Prince of the Ministry of Ceremonial had been visiting her, and then somehow ceased to come; and in answering a letter from the High Priestess of Ise she wrote of his not coming, and added this poem at the end. The prose concludes that there was a reply, but that it is not in the text.
The Lady of the Bedchamber of Sanjō was a daughter of Fujiwara no Sadakata, and appears in the ninety-fourth section sending the poem about the egg in the nest. The Prince of the Ministry of Ceremonial headed that ministry and is taken to be a different man from the prince of that title in the seventeenth through twentieth sections. The High Priestess is likewise taken to be a different woman from the one in the ninety-third.
The setting is the period after his visits ceased. The snow in the poem tells us it is winter.
What prompted the poem was her answering the High Priestess's letter; it stands at the end of a letter reporting that the prince no longer comes.
The prose closes by saying that there was a reply which is not in the text. The hundred and twentieth section gives another exchange between these two, where the High Priestess's reply is said to have been forgotten. This poem was later included in the Gosen-shū.

Shirayama is the snow-covered mountain in Kaga, which appears in the seventy-fifth section as well.
The verb for the snow's falling carries the sound of the word for growing old, so that snow lying deep and a woman grown old lie together.
What has gone is the track: snow covers a road, and with it the traces of anyone's coming.
The road named in the last line is the road to Koshi and also the road by which someone once came, so that an empty highway and a man who no longer visits are one word. Snow, tracks and road make a single continuous scene, and what it states is that the visits have stopped.
Source
Yamato Monogatari
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