Harae tada yukiwakegoromo nuki o usumi tsumoreba samushi yamaarashi no kaze

払へただ雪分け衣緯を薄み
積もれば寒し山嵐の風

Roma-ji: Harae tada yukiwakegoromo nuki o usumi tsumoreba samushi yamaarashi no kaze
English Translation: Just brush it away!
This robe I wear through snow
is thin in the weave,
and when the snow piles, I'm cold—
O storm wind from the mountains.
Meaning: Just brush it away! The robe I wear through the snow is thinly woven, and when snow piles on it I grow cold—O storm wind from the mountains.
Commentary: Winter Poems 372

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Snow"
A traveler making his way through the snow calls on the storm wind from the mountains simply to brush away the snow piling on his thin robe. The wind that drove the snow against him in the preceding poem is now asked to sweep it away.
The Ruijū text gives line 5 as yamaoroshi no kaze. Kamo no Mabuchi commented that the phrasing harae tada in line 1 is in a later style.

Line 1 means "just brush it away," calling to the storm wind in the imperative, and the poem pauses here. This is the line Mabuchi called later in style.
Line 2 is the robe worn when making one's way through snow.
Line 3 uses o … mi to show cause, "because the weft is thin."
Line 4 means "when it piles up, I am cold."
Line 5 is the same as that of the preceding poem, revealing last, by inversion, the one addressed in line 1. The wind that drove the snow in the preceding poem is here asked to brush it away.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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