Hanasusuki karetaru nobe ni oku shimo no musubōretsutsu fuyu wa kinikeri

花すすき枯れたる野辺に置く霜の
むすぼほれつつ冬は来にけり

Roma-ji: Hanasusuki karetaru nobe ni oku shimo no musubōretsutsu fuyu wa kinikeri
English Translation: On the withered moor
where the plumes of pampas grass
lie under frost,
my heart, like the frost, congeals—
winter has come upon us.
Meaning: Like the frost settling on the moor where the plumed pampas grass has withered, my heart grows heavy and tight—winter has come.
Commentary: Winter Poems 329

Headnote: "Frost on the moor"
This poem was composed on the theme of frost on the moor. As the frost settling on a moor of withered pampas grass congeals, so the heart grows heavy and closed, and winter has come. The single word musubōru joins the scene of the moor with the clouded heart.
The Ruijū text gives the headnote as "On frost on the moor."

Line 1, hanasusuki, is pampas grass in plume.
Line 2 means "on the moor where the grass has withered."
Line 3 completes the upper lines, which work as a preface leading to musubōre in line 4.
Line 4: musubōru is a pivot word meaning both frost congealing and the heart closing in gloom; tsutsu marks continuation.
Line 5 is the same last line as 312 to 316 at the head of the section, singing once again among the frost poems that winter has come.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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