Awayuki wa chie ni furishike koishiku no kenagaki ware wa mitsutsu shinowamu

沫雪は千重に降りしけ恋ひしくの
日長き我れは見つつ偲はむ

Roma-ji: Awayuki wa chie ni furishike koishiku no kenagaki ware wa mitsutsu shinowamu
English Translation: Foam-like snow, come fall
thousandfold and pile up deep!
I, whose days of longing
have been long, will watch it fall
and cherish you in my thoughts.
Meaning: O soft snow, fall and pile up a thousandfold! I, whose days of longing have been so long, will gaze on it and think of my beloved.
Commentary: Book Ten Winter Love Poems 2334

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Winter Love Poems"
This poem calls on the soft snow to pile up a thousandfold, saying the speaker, whose days of longing are long, will gaze on it and think of the beloved. It shows a heart seeking in piled snow a means of recalling the beloved. Against the vanishing snow of the preceding poem, this one wishes for piling snow, so vanishing and piling snow form a pair across the two poems. It is the opposite wish to 2321 in the winter miscellaneous poems, which asked the soft snow not to fall.
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro was a court poet of the Asuka period, active under Empress Jitō and Emperor Monmu. The left note records that this poem comes from the Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection, and it is uncertain whether it is Hitomaro's own work or a poem by someone else that he recorded.

The first line, "the soft snow," is the one addressed.
In the second line, "chie ni furishike," "chie" means a thousandfold and "shike" is the imperative of "shiku": pile up thousandfold. The poem breaks here.
The third line, "koishiku no," means of longing.
The fourth line, "I whose days are long," names the speaker.
In the last line, "mitsutsu shinowamu," "mu" expresses intention: I will gaze and think of her.
Author: Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Source: Manyoshu
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