Furu yuki ni yukue mo miezu hashitaka no obusa no suzu no oto bakari shite - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

降る雪に行方も見えずはし鷹の
尾ぶさの鈴の音ばかりして

Roma-ji: Furu yuki ni yukue mo miezu hashitaka no obusa no suzu no oto bakari shite
English Translation: In the falling snow
I cannot see where it has gone,
my sparrow hawk:
only the tinkle of the bell
upon its tail comes back to me
Meaning: In the falling snow I cannot see where my sparrow hawk has flown; there is only the sound of the bell on its tail.
Commentary: Book Six Winter Poems 422

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed on the topic 'Falconry' when a hundred-poem sequence was presented in the reign of Emperor Horikawa"
Composed on the topic of falconry for the Horikawa Hyakushu. In the falling snow, the poet says, he cannot see where his hawk has flown, and there is only the sound of the bell on its tail. It is a scene of falconry on a snowy day, following by the sound of its bell alone a hawk that has vanished into the thickly falling white.
The author, "Ryūgen Hōshi," was the son of Fujiwara no Michimune, Governor of Wakasa. A monk of the cloistered-rule period, he was one of the authors of the Horikawa Hyakushu.
The three poems from 421 to 423 are poems on falconry from the Horikawa Hyakushu. In the Horikawa Hyakushu, poets such as Minamoto no Toshiyori and Fujiwara no Kinzane each composed a hundred poems on shared topics in Horikawa's reign, and it became the model for later hundred-poem sequences. Falconry, hunting birds by loosing trained hawks, was counted among the sights of winter.

First line, "furu yuki ni": "because of the falling snow," giving the cause. 462 of this book opens with the same line.
Second line, "yukue mo miezu": "I cannot see where it has gone." The poem pauses here.
Third line, "hashitaka no": "hashitaka" is an old name for the sparrow hawk, a small hawk.
Fourth line, "obusa no suzu no": "obusa" is the base of a hawk's tail, where a bell was tied to mark its whereabouts.
Fifth line, "oto bakari shite": "only the sound of the bell," breaking off to leave a lingering echo, following by ear the hawk that cannot be seen.
Author: Ryūgen
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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