Fuyu samumi sora ni kōreru tsukikage wa yado ni moru koso tokuru narikere - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

冬寒み空に凍れる月影は
宿にもるこそ解くるなりけれ

Roma-ji: Fuyu samumi sora ni kōreru tsukikage wa yado ni moru koso tokuru narikere
English Translation: Winter is so cold
that the moonlight in the sky
is frozen, and yet
when it leaks into my house
it is then the ice melts
Meaning: In winter's cold, the moonlight seems frozen in the sky, yet when it leaks into my house, it is then that it melts.
Commentary: Book Four Winter Poems 274

In the winter cold the moonlight seems frozen in the sky, yet once it slips into the house it softens like melting ice. Likening the clear moonlight to ice, the wit lies in calling the light that enters the room 'melting'.
Placed among the poems on ice, it likens the moonlight in the sky to ice, in contrast to the earthly ice of the preceding poems.
From poem 271 through poem 275 in this book come poems on ice.
The author, Akinaka (Minamoto), is Minamoto no Akinaka. A son of Minamoto no Akifusa, he served as Head of the Department of Divinities. He was the father of Taikenmon'in no Horikawa and Jōsaimon'in no Hyōe.

First line, 'fuyu samumi', means since winter is cold, the stem of an adjective with mi expressing a cause.
Second line, 'sora ni kōreru', means frozen in the sky, likening the clear moonlight to ice.
Third line, 'tsukikage wa', is the moonlight.
Fourth line, 'yado ni moru koso', means it is when it leaks into my house, koso binding with the realis kere in the final line.
Final line, 'tokuru narikere', means it melts, answering 'frozen' in the second line and closing with the exclamatory keri.
Author: Minamoto no Akinaka
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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