Yo o samumi asato o hiraki idemireba niwa mo hadara ni miyuki furitari

夜を寒み朝戸を開き出で見れば
庭もはだらにみ雪降りたり

Roma-ji: Yo o samumi asato o hiraki idemireba niwa mo hadara ni miyuki furitari
English Translation: Since the night was cold,
opening the door at dawn,
going out, I looked:
in the garden, dappled white,
there the snow had fallen down.
Meaning: The night was so cold that when I opened the door at dawn and went out, the garden was dappled with fallen snow.
Commentary: Book Ten Winter Miscellaneous Poems 2318

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Snow"
This poem, sensing snow from the night's cold, opens the door at dawn to find the garden dappled with snow. From the night's chill to the morning snowscape, the arrival of winter is depicted along the flow of time. The kundoku carries a variant for the lower lines, "niwa mo hodoro ni yuki zo furitaru." In 2323 too the words "idemireba" and "niwa mo hodoro ni" appear, so the expressions echo.

In the first line, "yo o samumi," "mi" marks cause: since the night was cold.
The second line, "opening the morning door," names the act.
The third line, "going out to look," names the moment.
In the fourth line, "niwa mo hadara ni," "hadara" means dappled, thinly.
In the last line, "miyuki furitari," "mi" is an honorific prefix and "tari" a continuing state.
Source: Manyoshu
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