Ori shimo are ureshiku yuki no uzumu kana kakikomorinan to omou yamaji o

折しもあれ嬉しく雪の埋むかな
かきこもりなんと思ふ山路を

Roma-ji: Ori shimo are ureshiku yuki no uzumu kana kakikomorinan to omou yamaji o
English Translation: Just at the right time,
how glad I am the snow comes
to bury it all—
this mountain road where I have thought
to shut myself away for good.
Meaning: Just at the right moment, how glad I am that the snow is burying the mountain path, where I meant to shut myself away completely.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 1364

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When snow had fallen"
Just at the right time, how gladly the snow buries the mountain road, where he meant to shut himself away entirely, the poet says.
He rejoices that snow buries the road by which people would come, a convenience for his seclusion. Taking being snowed in not as loneliness but as joy is a recluse's state of mind.

First line, “ori shimo are”: just at the right time, breaking after the first line.
Second line, “ureshiku yuki no”: gladly, the snow.
Third line, “uzumu kana”: kana is exclamatory, "how it buries"; the poem breaks here.
Fourth line, “kakikomorinan to”: kakikomoru is to shut oneself in; nan joins perfective and volitional; the line has an extra syllable.
Fifth line, “omou yamaji o”: the mountain road I think of, the inversion giving what the snow buries.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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