Okiakasu shimo to tomo ni ya kesa wa mina fuyu no yo fukaki tsumi mo kenu ran - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

おきあかす霜とともにや今朝はみな
冬の夜深き罪も消ぬらん

Roma-ji: Okiakasu shimo to tomo ni ya kesa wa mina fuyu no yo fukaki tsumi mo kenu ran
English Translation: Waking through the night,
together with the frost that lay,
this morning are they
melted all, the sins grown deep
as the depths of winter nights?
Meaning: Having kept awake all night, this morning, together with the frost that lay all night, have all our sins, deep as the winter night, melted away?
Commentary: Book Four Winter Poems 257

Headnote: "For a folding screen painting, a scene of the Buddha Names service"
On the morning after staying up all night chanting the names of the buddhas at the Butsumyō-e, the poet supposes that, together with the frost that lay all night melting away, sins as deep as the winter night must all have vanished too. Overlaying the melting of frost with the vanishing of sins, the poem expresses the pure heart of the morning after the service. According to the headnote, it was written for a folding screen painting of the Buddha Names service. The Butsumyō-e was a Buddhist service held each year in the Twelfth Month at the palace over three days, in which the names of the buddhas were chanted to repent the sins of the year and pray for their removal.
The author, written as Yoshinobu, is Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu. From the Ōnakatomi family, who served as chief priests of the Ise Shrine, he took part in compiling the Gosenshū and in reading the Man'yōshū as one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber, and he is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "okiakasu," plays on staying awake until dawn and frost lying until the night ends.
Second line, "shimo to tomo ni ya," means "together with the frost," with "ya" a questioning particle.
Third line, "kesa wa mina," means "this morning, all of them."
Fourth line, "fuyu no yo fukaki," lays the depth of sin over the depth of the late winter night, leading to "tsumi" (sins).
Final line, "tsumi mo kenu ran," means "have the sins too vanished, I wonder," with "nu" a perfective auxiliary and "ya" resolved by the attributive "ran." 258 in this book also sings of sins vanishing with the snow, continuing the poems on the Buddha Names service.
Author: Onakatomi no Yoshinobu
Source: Shui Wakashu
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