Furu yuki wa kiede mo shibashi tomaranan hana mo momiji mo eda ni naki koro - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

降る雪は消えでもしばしとまらなん
花ももみぢも枝になきころ

Roma-ji: Furu yuki wa kiede mo shibashi tomaranan hana mo momiji mo eda ni naki koro
English Translation: Falling snow,
without melting, stay awhile,
I wish you would—
for neither flowers nor leaves
are on the branches now
Meaning: Falling snow, I wish you would linger awhile without melting, now that neither blossoms nor autumn leaves are on the branches.
Commentary: Book Eight Winter Poems 493

Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poet asks the falling snow to linger awhile without melting, now that neither blossoms nor autumn leaves are on the branches. The poem wishes that the snow that adorns the winter branches, bare of spring flowers and autumn leaves, would at least remain for a time.
Taking up the recurring conceit of snow as blossoms, it cherishes the snow as what adorns winter branches with neither blossoms nor leaves. It accords with 476, which would see the snow as blossoms so long as it does not melt.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us.

The first line, "Furu yuki wa," means "falling snow."
In the second line, "de" is a negative conjunctive particle: "without melting, for a while."
In the third line, "nan" is a particle expressing a wish directed at another: "I wish you would stay." The poem pauses here, in inverted order with the lower lines.
The fourth line, "hana mo momiji mo," means "neither spring flowers nor autumn leaves."
The last line, "eda ni naki koro," means "now when they are not on the branches," closing the poem with a noun.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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