Kamitsuke no ikaho no nero ni furo yoki no yukisugikatenu imo ga ie no atari

上つ毛野伊香保の嶺ろに降ろ雪の
行き過ぎかてぬ妹が家のあたり

Roma-ji: Kamitsuke no ikaho no nero ni furo yoki no yukisugikatenu imo ga ie no atari
English Translation: In Kamitsuke,
on Ikaho's lofty peaks
the snows come falling:
no going by, no passing on—
near the house where my love lives.
Meaning: Like the snow falling on Ikaho's peaks in Kamitsuke, I cannot go on past it—the neighborhood of my darling's house.
Commentary: Book Fourteen Azuma Poems 3423

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Sōmon (Love Exchanges)"
From "yuki," the snow falling on Ikaho's peaks, comes "yuki," going, as the singer says he cannot pass by his beloved's house. The whiteness of falling snow merges with a heart reluctant to leave.
The left note reads "The twenty-two poems above are from Kōzuke Province," and this is the last of them. It uses many eastern forms such as "ro" and "yoki."
The poet is unknown. The Azuma uta are thought to have been sung among the people of the eastern provinces, and they are marked by plain, open-hearted expression mixed with local dialect.

First line, "kamitsuke no": The old name of Kōzuke, opening the last of the Kōzuke poems.
Second line, "ikaho no nero ni": The peak of Ikaho, the last of the Ikaho poems that began with 3409.
Third line, "furo yoki no": "Furo" is an eastern form of "furu" and "yoki" of "yuki." The first three lines form a preface leading to "yuki," going.
Fourth line, "yukisugikatenu": "Katenu" means unable; the poem pauses here, in inversion.
Final line, "imo ga ie no atari": A hypermetric line of eight syllables, revealing through inversion, at the end, the place he cannot pass.
Source: Manyoshu
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