Amakumo no yoso ni kari ga ne kikishi yori hadarejimo furi samushi kono yo wa

天雲の外に雁が音聞きしより
はだれ霜降り寒しこの夜は

Roma-ji: Amakumo no yoso ni kari ga ne kikishi yori hadarejimo furi samushi kono yo wa
English Translation: Far beyond the clouds
of heaven I heard wild geese cry,
and ever since then
thin frost has come scattering—
oh, how cold it is tonight!
Meaning: Ever since I heard the cry of the wild geese far off beyond the clouds, a thin frost has fallen—how cold this night is!
Commentary: Book Ten Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 2132

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Wild Geese"
This poem says that since hearing the geese's cry beyond the clouds, a thin frost has fallen and the night has grown cold. It takes the geese's migration as a sign of the season deepening, sensing the cold as autumn turns toward winter. The kundoku also carries a variant for the lower lines, "iya masumasu ni koi koso masare," saying that longing grows ever greater.

The first line, "of the clouds of heaven," names the sky.
In the second line, "yoso ni kari ga ne," "yoso" means a distant place: the geese's cry far away.
In the third line, "kikishi yori," "shi" is the attributive of the past "ki": since I heard.
In the fourth line, "hadarejimo furi," "hadarejimo" means thin, scattered frost.
The last line, "samushi kono yo wa," is inverted: how cold it is, this night.
Source: Manyoshu
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