Arare furi itaku kaze fuki samuki yo ya hatano ni koyoi waga hitori nemu

霰降りいたく風吹き寒き夜や
旗野に今夜我が独り寝む

Roma-ji: Arare furi itaku kaze fuki samuki yo ya hatano ni koyoi waga hitori nemu
English Translation: Hailstones coming down,
fiercely blowing is the wind,
on this frozen night
in the fields of Hatano,
must I sleep alone tonight?
Meaning: On this cold night of falling hail and fierce wind, must I sleep alone tonight in the fields of Hatano?
Commentary: Book Ten Winter Love Poems 2338

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Love Expressed Through Snow"
This poem laments whether the speaker must sleep alone tonight at Hatano on a cold night of falling hail and fierce wind. The harsh cold of a winter night overlaps with the loneliness of sleeping alone. Like 2261 in the autumn love poems, sleeping alone on a night when the Hatsuse wind blows, it laments sleeping alone on a cold, windy night.

The first line, "hail falling," names the weather.
The second line, "the wind blowing fiercely," adds to it.
In the third line, "samuki yo ya," "ya" is an interrogative particle in kakari-musubi with "mu" in the last line.
In the fourth line, "hatano ni koyoi," Hatano is thought to be a place in Yamato.
The last line, "waga hitori nemu," must I sleep alone?, answers "ya."
Source: Manyoshu
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