classic waka stream

暁の夢の枕に雪積もり
わが寝覚め訪ふ峰の松風
Roma-ji

Akatsuki no yume no makura ni yuki tsumori waga nezame tou mine no matsukaze

English Translation
At the break of dawn
on my pillow of dreams
the snow has gathered,
and visiting my waking
the wind through the pines on the peak.
Meaning
At dawn the snow has piled up on my pillow where I lay dreaming, and what comes to visit me on waking is the wind in the pines on the peak.
Commentary
Miscellaneous Poems 586

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On a painting on a folding screen showing many travellers in snowfall in the mountains"
At dawn snow has piled up to the pillow of the dreaming traveller, and when he wakes only the wind in the pines on the peak comes to call. In the mountains where no one visits, the wind is his only companion.
The Ruijū text places it in its travel section. Kamo no Mabuchi called "pillow of dreams" a later phrase.

Line 1 means "at dawn," advancing time from the "night of deep snow" of the preceding poem.
Line 2 means "on the pillow of dreams."
Line 3 means "the snow piles up."
Line 4 means "visiting my waking," treating the wind as a visitor.
Line 5 is the same last line as the preceding poem, "the wind in the pines on the peak," ending on a noun.
Author
Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source
Kinkaishu
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