Yomosugara Arashi no yama ni kaze saete Ōi no yodo ni kōri o zo shiku

夜もすがらあらしの山に風冴えて
大井の淀に氷をぞ敷く

Roma-ji: Yomosugara Arashi no yama ni kaze saete Ōi no yodo ni kōri o zo shiku
English Translation: All the long night through
on the mountain of the storm
the wind blows freezing,
and on the pools of the Ōi
it spreads a sheet of ice.
Meaning: All night long the wind blows freezing over Arashiyama, the Mountain of Storms, and spreads a sheet of ice over the still pools of the Ōi River.
Commentary: Winter Poems 561

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Ten winter poems"
This is the fifth of the ten winter poems. All night long a freezing wind blows on Arashiyama, the Mountain of Storms, true to its name, and spreads a sheet of ice over the still pools of the Ōi River flowing at its foot. Laying the fierceness of the wind over the storm in the mountain's name, the poem catches the bitter cold of a winter night.
Poem 522 in this book also ends with kōri o zo shiku, there likening moonlight in a garden to ice; the imagined ice and the real ice answer each other. Its first line, yomosugara, is the same as that of 491 at the head of this book, and the two also echo each other in telling of a storm blowing all night.

First line, “yomosugara”: all night long; it is the same first line as 491 at the head of the book.
Second line, “Arashi no yama ni”: arashi is a pivot word, a storm wind and the mountain named Arashiyama.
Third line, “kaze saete”: sayu is to be chill, the wind blowing cold.
Fourth line, “Ōi no yodo ni”: Ōi is the Ōi River at the foot of Arashiyama, and yodo a pool where the river runs slow and still.
Fifth line, “kōri o zo shiku”: zo is an emphatic particle binding with the attributive shiku; it is the same last line as 522.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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