Furu yuki wa tani no toboso o uzumu tomo miyo no hotoke no hi ya terasuran - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

降る雪は谷の扉を埋むとも
三世の仏の日や照らすらん

Roma-ji: Furu yuki wa tani no toboso o uzumu tomo miyo no hotoke no hi ya terasuran
English Translation: Though the falling snow
should bury in the valley
the door of your cell,
the sun of the buddhas of three worlds
surely shines upon you there
Meaning: Even if the falling snow should bury the door of your hermitage in the valley, surely the sun of the buddhas of the three worlds is shining upon you.
Commentary: Book Nineteen Buddhist Poems 1220

Headnote: "Sent in winter when the later Lay Priest Imperial Prince was in retreat on Mount Kōya"
Retired Emperor Sutoku sent this one winter when his younger brother, Imperial Prince Kakushō, was in retreat on Mount Kōya. Though the falling snow buries the door in the valley, surely the sun of the buddhas of the three worlds shines there, he says. Concerned for his brother practicing in mountains shut in by snow, he encourages him with the thought that the Buddha's light must be shining upon him.
The author, "Poem of Retired Emperor Sutoku," is a composition of Sutoku, the first son of Emperor Toba, who became the seventy-fifth emperor. He loved poetry, called for the Kyūan Hundred-Poem Sequences and commanded the compiling of the Shika Wakashū. Defeated in the Hōgen Disturbance, he was exiled to Sanuki and died there.
The next poem, 1221, is Imperial Prince Kakushō's reply, which takes up this poem's "buddhas of the three worlds," "falling snow" and "shining" just as they are.

First line, "furu yuki wa": "the falling, piling snow." It is carried on into "furu yuki yori mo" in the fourth line of the next poem, 1221.
Second line, "tani no toboso o": "toboso" means a door, the door of a hermitage in a valley of Mount Kōya.
Third line, "uzumu tomo": "tomo" is a concessive conjunctive particle, "even if it should bury it."
Fourth line, "miyo no hotoke no": "of the buddhas of past, present and future," carried over unchanged into the second line of the next poem, 1221.
Fifth line, "hi ya terasuran": the sun stands for the light of the Buddha's mercy, and "ya," an interrogative binding particle, closes with "ran," the attributive of the present conjectural.
Author: Retired Emperor Sutoku
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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