Kasugano no yuki o wakana ni tsumisoete kyō sae sode no shiorenuru kana - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

春日野の雪を若菜に摘み添へて
今日さへ袖のしをれぬるかな

Roma-ji: Kasugano no yuki o wakana ni tsumisoete kyō sae sode no shiorenuru kana
English Translation: On Kasuga Plain
I pluck the snow together
with the young greens,
and even on this day
my sleeves hang soaked and limp
Meaning: On Kasuga Plain I pluck the snow together with the young greens, and even on this day my sleeves hang soaked and drooping.
Commentary: Book One Spring Poems I 14

Headnote: "Composed as a poem on young greens when presenting a hundred-poem sequence in the reign of Emperor Horikawa"
Composed on the topic "young greens" for the Horikawa Hundred-Poem Sequence, this poem says that gathering greens on Kasuga Plain means gathering the snow left on them too, so the sleeves become wet and limp. "Even on this day" implies that even on the auspicious day of picking greens his sleeves are wet, hinting at sleeves that are often wet.
The author, "Minamoto no Toshiyori Ason," is Minamoto no Toshiyori, son of Major Counselor Minamoto no Tsunenobu. A leading figure in the poetry circle of Emperor Horikawa, he compiled the Kin'yō Wakashū at the command of Retired Emperor Shirakawa. Fujiwara no Shunzei, compiler of the Senzai Wakashū, deeply revered him, and more of his poems are included in this anthology than those of any other poet.
Like Emperor Kōkō's Kokin Wakashū poem about going into the spring fields to pick greens while snow falls on his sleeves, it stands in the tradition of pairing young greens with snow.

First line, "Kasugano no": Kasuga Plain in Yamato, a poetic place famed for gathering young greens. Tobuhi in the preceding poem, 13, is part of Kasuga Plain, so both poems describe greens from the same field.
Second line, "yuki o wakana ni": snow lying on the greens, showing snow and greens as one.
Third line, "tsumisoete": "plucking it along with them," adding the snow to the greens.
Fourth line, "kyō sae sode no": "sae" is additive, "even today."
Fifth line, "shiorenuru kana": "shioru" means to droop from wetness, "nuru" is the attributive of the completive "nu," and "kana" is exclamatory.
Author: Minamoto no Toshiyori
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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