Kiyuru o ya miyako no hito wa oshimu ran kesa yamazato ni harau shirayuki - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

消ゆるをや都の人は惜しむらん
今朝山里に払ふ白雪

Roma-ji: Kiyuru o ya miyako no hito wa oshimu ran kesa yamazato ni harau shirayuki
English Translation: Its melting away,
do the people of the capital
grieve for it, I wonder?
This morning in the mountain village
we sweep aside the snow
Meaning: Do the people of the capital grieve to see it melt, this white snow that we sweep aside this morning in the mountain village?
Commentary: Book Six Winter Poems 448

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed as a poem on snow among the poems of a hundred-poem sequence"
A poem on snow from the Kyūan Hyakushu. Do the people of the capital grieve to see it melt, the poet asks, this white snow that is swept aside this morning in the mountain village? Contrasting the people of the capital, who regret the snow as a thing of elegance, with mountain villagers who sweep it away as a hindrance to daily life, he shows the hardship of life in a village shut in by snow.
The author, "Fujiwara no Kiyosuke Ason," was the son of Master of the Eastern Capital Office Fujiwara no Akisuke. He carried on the poetic scholarship of the Rokujō Fujiwara house and wrote the treatises Fukuro Zōshi and Ōgishō. A poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
The three poems from 446 to 448 are poems on snow from Retired Emperor Sutoku's Kyūan Hyakushu. The Kyūan Hyakushu is the hundred-poem sequence that Retired Emperor Sutoku commissioned from poets such as Fujiwara no Akisuke and Fujiwara no Shunzei, presented in the sixth year of Kyūan (1150).

First line, "kiyuru o ya": the interrogative "ya" closes with the attributive "ran" in the second line, "its melting away."
Second line, "miyako no hito wa": the people of the capital, set against those of the mountain village. 419 of this book also contrasts the capital with a mountain village.
Third line, "oshimu ran": "do they regret it?" guessing at the hearts of people in the capital. The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "kesa yamazato ni": "this morning in the mountain village," set against the capital.
Fifth line, "harau shirayuki": the poem ends on a noun. "Harau" is to sweep aside, showing that in the mountain village the snow is a nuisance.
Author: Fujiwara no Kiyosuke
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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