Yamazato no kakine wa yuki ni uzumorete nobe to hitotsu ni narinikeru kana - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

山里の垣根は雪に埋もれて
野辺と一つになりにけるかな

Roma-ji: Yamazato no kakine wa yuki ni uzumorete nobe to hitotsu ni narinikeru kana
English Translation: In the mountain village
the hedges have been buried
beneath the snow,
and now the garden and the moor
have become a single field
Meaning: The hedges of the mountain village are buried in snow, and now they have become one with the open fields.
Commentary: Book Six Winter Poems 457

Headnote: "Composed as a poem on snow"
Composed as a poem on snow. The hedges of the mountain village are buried in snow, the poet says, and have become one with the fields. He depicts the hedges that once divided house from moor hidden beneath the snow, so that all around becomes a single undivided expanse of white.
The author, "Migi no Ōimauchigimi," the Minister of the Right, is Fujiwara no Sanesada, son of Minister of the Right Fujiwara no Kin'yoshi. He was Minister of the Right when this anthology was compiled and later rose to Minister of the Left. He was called the Later Tokudaiji Minister of the Left, and a poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
Poems on snow continue from 445 to 467. The four poems from 457 to 460 are poems on snow placed under the same headnote. 468 of this book sings, like this poem, of the hedge of a mountain village in "yamazato no kakine no ume wa sakinikeri." Where this poem sings of a hedge buried in snow, 468 sings of a hedge where plum has bloomed before the year's end, a contrast of snow and plum.

First line, "yamazato no": a village in the hills, away from the capital. 468 of this book opens with the same line.
Second line, "kakine wa yuki ni": "kakine" is the hedge or fence enclosing a house.
Third line, "uzumorete": "buried in the snow." Like 451 and 454 of this book, it sings of things buried by snow.
Fourth line, "nobe to hitotsu ni": the distinction between inside the hedge and the moor outside lost, the two become one.
Fifth line, "narinikeru kana": the perfective "ni," the attributive "keru" of the exclamatory "keri," and the exclamatory "kana" close with deep feeling.
Author: Fujiwara no Sanesada
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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