Toki wakazu fureru yuki ka to miru made ni kakine mo tawa ni sakeru u no hana - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

時分かず降れる雪かと見るまでに
垣根もたわに咲ける卯の花

Roma-ji: Toki wakazu fureru yuki ka to miru made ni kakine mo tawa ni sakeru u no hana
English Translation: As if it were snow
that had fallen heedless of
the season, so white,
bending even the hedge with weight,
the deutzia flowers bloom
Meaning: So thickly do the deutzia bloom that the hedge bends beneath them, as if snow had fallen heedless of the season.
Commentary: Book Four Summer Poems 153

Headnote: "At a house with a hedge of deutzia."
The poem sings of deutzia blooming so thickly that the hedge bends, looking like snow fallen without regard to the season. Likening summer's white flowers to winter snow, it praises their abundance and whiteness.
According to the headnote, it was composed at a house with a deutzia hedge.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us. The text gives the author as "yomibito mo," but it is treated here as anonymous.
It is also included in Fujiwara no Teika's anthology Teika Hachidaishō.

The first line, "Toki wakazu," means "without regard to the season," leading to the conceit of snow falling in summer. 155 of this book also begins with "Toki wakazu," and the two share nearly the same upper verses and last line.
In the second line, "ru" is the attributive form of the continuative auxiliary "ri": "as if it were fallen snow." 155 turns it into "tsuki ka yuki ka to," adding moonlight as well.
The third line, "miru made ni," means "to the point of seeming," marking the degree of the likeness.
In the fourth line, "tawa ni" means "so as to bend," describing the hedge bowed by the weight of blossoms. 155 has "kakine no mama ni," describing flowers filling the whole hedge.
The last line, "sakeru u no hana," ends on a noun, bringing the focus to the deutzia blooming white and full.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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