Mikumano no nagi no ha shidari furu yuki wa kami no kaketaru shide ni zo arikeru

み熊野の梛の葉しだり降る雪は
神のかけたる垂にぞありける

Roma-ji: Mikumano no nagi no ha shidari furu yuki wa kami no kaketaru shide ni zo arikeru
English Translation: At holy Kumano
the nagi leaves droop low
beneath the falling snow—
it is the white paper
the god has hung there.
Meaning: The snow that falls till the nagi leaves of Kumano droop is the white paper streamers the god himself has hung.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 634

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Snow at the shrine"
The snow weighing down the leaves of the sacred nagi trees of Kumano is seen as the white paper streamers the god has hung, likening the whiteness of snow to the shide before a shrine and conveying the purity of the sacred precinct. Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a sign of praise.
The Ruijū text places it in its winter section. The source as displayed also shows yuki furu wa in line 3 and arurashi in line 5; here they are read furu yuki wa and arikeru.

Line 1 means "of holy Kumano," mi an honorific prefix.
Line 2 means "the nagi leaves drooping," the nagi being Kumano's sacred tree.
Line 3 means "the falling snow," moving from the snow of Hakusan in the preceding poem to Kumano.
Line 4 means "that the god has hung."
Line 5 means "is the streamers," zo concluded by keru.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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