Yū sareba urakaze samushi amaobune hatsuse no yama ni yuki zo fururashi

夕されば浦風寒し海人小舟
泊瀬の山に雪ぞ降るらし

Roma-ji: Yū sareba urakaze samushi amaobune hatsuse no yama ni yuki zo fururashi
English Translation: When evening comes
the wind off the bay is cold;
where fisher boats moor,
on the mountains of Hatsuse
the snow must be falling now.
Meaning: As evening comes, the wind off the bay turns cold; on the mountains of Hatsuse, snow must be falling.
Commentary: Winter Poems 363

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Snow"
As evening comes, the poet feels the cold of the wind off the bay and surmises that snow must be falling on the mountains of Hatsuse. As in the preceding poem, he imagines snow on distant mountains from the cold of the wind on his body.
This poem was included in the Shinshokukokin Wakashū, where line 5 reads yuki wa fururashi. The Ruijū and Teika texts give line 5 as miyuki fururashi. Kamo no Mabuchi commented that amaobune, "fisher boat," is only a pillow word for Hatsuse, and that setting it beside the bay wind follows an error of the poets of the day. The source glosses the place name as tomase, but it is read as Hatsuse from the pillow word amaobune that leads to it.

Line 1 is the same as that of the preceding poem and continues into the next.
Line 2 means "the wind over the bay is cold," and the poem pauses here.
Line 3, amaobune, is a pillow word for Hatsuse, as fishermen's boats hatsu, "come to mooring." Kamo no Mabuchi criticized pairing it with the bay wind of line 2.
Line 4 names the mountains of Hatsuse in Yamato.
Line 5 concludes the binding particle zo with rashi, inferring that snow is falling, the same conjecture as at the end of the preceding poem.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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