Yuki o okite ume o na koi so ashihiki no yama katazukite iei seru kimi

雪をおきて梅をな恋ひそあしひきの
山片付きて家居せる君

Roma-ji: Yuki o okite ume o na koi so ashihiki no yama katazukite iei seru kimi
English Translation: Setting snow aside
do not long so for the plum,
on the rugged hills
close beside the mountainside
you who have made your dwelling.
Meaning: Do not set the snow aside and long for plum blossoms—you who have made your home nestled against the mountain.
Commentary: Book Ten Spring Miscellaneous Poems 1842

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Snow"
Answering the preceding poem, which mistook snow for plum blossoms, this poem retorts that you, who live in the mountains, should delight in the snow itself rather than long for the plum. The left note says "the two poems above are a dialogue," and it forms an exchange with 1841. It is a witty reply that draws on the other's mountain home, and the two poems complete an exchange over seeing snow as plum.

The first line, "yuki o okite," means setting the snow aside, and is hypermetric. It takes up the snow that was likened to plum in the preceding poem.
The second line, "ume o na koi so," uses "na ... so" for prohibition: do not long for the plum. It answers as if to dismiss the preceding comparison.
The third line, "ashihiki no," is a pillow word attached to "mountain."
The fourth line, "yama katazukite," means leaning to one side toward the mountain, living close against it, showing that the other lives in a mountain village.
The last line, "you who make your home there," closes as an address. By inversion it names at the end the one to whom the prohibition is spoken.
Source: Manyoshu
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