classic waka stream

しなが鳥猪名の伏原風冴えて
昆陽の池水氷しにけり
Roma-ji

Shinagadori ina no fushihara kaze saete koya no ikemizu kōri shinikeri

English Translation
Over the low fields
of Ina of the long-winged birds
the wind is frozen,
and the waters of Koya's pond
have turned to ice at last
Meaning
The wind blowing over the low fields of Ina has grown bitterly cold, and the water of the pond at Koya has frozen.
Commentary
Book Four Winter Poems 273

The wind sweeping across the plain of Ina in Settsu grows piercingly cold, and the water of the nearby pond at Koya freezes. Linking the chill of the wind across the broad plain to the freezing of the pond, the poem layers poetic places of Settsu to draw a winter landscape.
It moves the scene from the valley stream's ice in the preceding poem, 272, to the ice of a pond on the plain.
From poem 271 through poem 275 in this book come poems on ice.
The author, Nakazane, is Fujiwara no Nakazane. A son of Fujiwara no Yoshinari, he served in posts such as Assistant Master of the Empress's Household. He was one of the poets of the Horikawa Hundred-Poem Sequences.

First line, 'shinagadori', is a pillow word attached to Ina.
Second line, 'ina no fushihara', is the low plain of Ina in Settsu, a field of low grasses and shrubs.
Third line, 'kaze saete', means the wind grows cold, the cause of the freezing.
Fourth line, 'koya no ikemizu', is the water of Koya Pond in Settsu, a poetic place near the plain of Ina.
Final line, 'kōri shinikeri', means it has frozen, closing with the exclamatory keri, and it ends in shinikeri like 'has formed a single layer' in poem 271 in this book.
Author
Fujiwara no Nakazane
Source
Kinyo Wakashu
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