Yuki tsumoru ono ga toshi o ba shirazu shite haru o ba asu to kiku zo ureshiki - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

ゆき積もるおのが年をば知らずして
春をば明日と聞くぞうれしき

Roma-ji: Yuki tsumoru ono ga toshi o ba shirazu shite haru o ba asu to kiku zo ureshiki
English Translation: Unaware of how
my own years, like the snow, have
gone by and piled up,
how glad I am to hear it said
that spring will come tomorrow.
Meaning: Heedless of my own years piling up like snow as they go by, how happy I am to hear that spring comes tomorrow.
Commentary: Book Four Winter Poems 262

Headnote: "From a hundred-poem sequence"
Forgetting his own years, which pile up like snow as they go by, the poet says he is glad to hear that spring comes tomorrow. Though carrying the sorrow of aging, he plainly expresses joy at greeting a new spring, closing the winter book on a bright note. According to the headnote, it is one of a hundred-poem sequence.
Minamoto no Shigeyuki, of the Seiwa Genji line, he was a poet of the mid-Heian period. A son of Minamoto no Kanenobu, he was adopted by his uncle Minamoto no Kanetada. He served as Provisional Governor of Sagami among other posts and in his last years went down to Mutsu, where he died. He presented a hundred-poem sequence to Emperor Reizei while the latter was crown prince, which is regarded as one of the earliest surviving hundred-poem sequences. He is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "yuki tsumoru," plays on "yuki" as snow and as the years going by, meaning "piling up like snow." It takes up "the years and months piling up on my own body" in the preceding poem.
Second line, "ono ga toshi o ba," means "my own years," with "o ba" an emphatic form of "o."
Third line, "shirazu shite," means "paying no heed."
Fourth line, "haru o ba asu to," means "that spring is tomorrow."
Final line, "kiku zo ureshiki," means "how glad I am to hear," with "zo" resolved by the attributive "ureshiki." Whereas 215 at the head of this book opened winter with leaves shining in the cold showers, this poem at the end closes winter in joy at tomorrow's spring, so that the head and end of the book answer each other with autumn's lingering trace and spring's first sign.
Author: Minamoto no Shigeyuki
Source: Shui Wakashu
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