Kyō ya sa wa yuki uchitokete uguisu no miyako e izuru hatsune naruramu - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

今日やさは雪うちとけて鶯の
都へ出づる初音なるらむ

Roma-ji: Kyō ya sa wa yuki uchitokete uguisu no miyako e izuru hatsune naruramu
English Translation: So is it today,
with the snow now melting free,
that the warbler sings,
coming out toward the capital,
the first song of all the year
Meaning: So is it today, with the snow melting away, that the warbler comes out toward the capital singing its first song of the year?
Commentary: Book One Spring Poems 14

On this day when the snow has melted, the poet imagines the warbler leaving the hills to sing its first song in the capital. The melting of the snow is overlaid with the bird's heart opening up. The poem appears to draw on the Nijō Empress's poem in the Kokinshū about spring coming amid the snow and the warbler's frozen tears melting.
The author, Akisuke, is Fujiwara no Akisuke. A son of Fujiwara no Akisue, he rose to Master of the Western Capital Office. A poet of the Rokujō Fujiwara house, he compiled the Shikawakashū at the command of Retired Emperor Sutoku.

First line, 'kyō ya sa wa', means so, today then; sa wa expresses acceptance of what has gone before. It echoes 'Is it from today' at the head of poem 13.
Second line, 'yuki uchitokete', contains uchitokete, a pivot word meaning both the snow melting and the warbler opening its heart.
Third line, 'uguisu no', names the subject.
Fourth line, 'miyako e izuru', means coming out toward the capital; against 'grows familiar with the village' in the preceding poem, the bird's destination is now the capital.
Final line, 'hatsune naruramu', means it must be the first song of the year, matching the form of 'the beginning of that time' in the preceding poem.
Author: Fujiwara no Akisuke
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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