Hitorine wa kurushiki mono to koriyo to ya tabi naru yo shimo yuki no fururan - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

独り寝は苦しきものと懲りよとや
旅なる夜しも雪の降るらん

Roma-ji: Hitorine wa kurushiki mono to koriyo to ya tabi naru yo shimo yuki no fururan
English Translation: Is it to teach me
that sleeping alone is hard,
so that I'll learn,
that on this night, while I travel,
of all nights the snow should fall?
Meaning: Is it to teach me once and for all that sleeping alone is hard that the snow falls on this night of all nights, while I am on a journey?
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Autumn Poems 1151

Headnote: "Topic unknown"
The poet wonders whether the snow falls on this night of all nights, when he sleeps alone on a journey, to teach him once and for all how hard it is to sleep alone. He depicts the cold and loneliness of sleeping on the road as if the snow were deliberately trying to make him feel them.

First line, "hitorine wa," means "sleeping alone."
Second line, "kurushiki mono to," means "that it is hard."
Third line, "koriyo to ya," means "is it to make me learn my lesson," with "ya" a questioning binding particle answered by "ran" in the final line. The poem breaks after this third line.
Fourth line, "tabi naru yo shimo," means "on this night of all nights on a journey," with "shimo" an emphatic particle.
Final line, "yuki no fururan," means "does the snow fall," with "ran" the attributive form of an auxiliary conjecturing a cause. The snow poems continue from the third line of the preceding poem, 1150, "yuki furite."
Author: Ki no Tsurayuki
Source: Shui Wakashu
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