Terasu naru miyo no hotoke no asahi ni wa furu yuki yori mo tsumi ya kiyuran - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

照らすなる三世の仏の朝日には
降る雪よりも罪や消ゆらん

Roma-ji: Terasu naru miyo no hotoke no asahi ni wa furu yuki yori mo tsumi ya kiyuran
English Translation: In the morning sun
of the buddhas of three worlds
said to shine on me,
even sooner than the snow
my sins, I think, will melt away
Meaning: In the morning sun of the buddhas of the three worlds that you say is shining, my sins will surely melt away even before the falling snow.
Commentary: Book Nineteen Buddhist Poems 1221

Headnote: "His reply"
This is the reply to the preceding poem by Retired Emperor Sutoku. In the morning sun of the buddhas of the three worlds that is said to shine, my sins will melt even before the falling snow, he says. Taking up the retired emperor's words that the sun of the Buddha must be shining, he answers, with gratitude for his brother's encouragement, that even sooner than snow melts in the morning sun, the Buddha's light will make his sins vanish.
The author, "Later Lay Priest Imperial Prince of Ninnaji," is Imperial Prince Kakushō. The fifth son of Emperor Toba and a full younger brother of Retired Emperor Sutoku, he entered Ninnaji and was honored as its head.
It forms an exchange with the preceding poem, 1220; to the retired emperor who worried about him shut in by snow, he replies that his sins will vanish before the snow does.

First line, "terasu naru": "naru," the attributive of the hearsay "nari," gives "that is said to shine." It takes up "hi ya terasuran" in the fifth line of the preceding poem.
Second line, "miyo no hotoke no": it repeats exactly "miyo no hotoke no" in the fourth line of the preceding poem.
Third line, "asahi ni wa": it takes the "sun" of the preceding poem as the morning sun, the light that melts the snow.
Fourth line, "furu yuki yori mo": taking up "furu yuki wa" in the first line of the preceding poem, "even sooner than the snow melting in the morning sun."
Fifth line, "tsumi ya kiyuran": "ya" is an interrogative binding particle closing with "ran," the attributive of the present conjectural "ramu." "Kiyu," to melt away, is an associated word of snow, saying that sins vanish like snow.
Author: Prince Kakushō
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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