Shiranami no tachiwataru ka to miyuru kana hamana no hashi ni fureru hatsuyuki - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

白波の立ちわたるかと見ゆるかな
浜名の橋に降れる初雪

Roma-ji: Shiranami no tachiwataru ka to miyuru kana hamana no hashi ni fureru hatsuyuki
English Translation: As if white waves
were rising all across it,
so it seems to me:
upon the bridge of Hamana
the first snow has fallen
Meaning: It looks as if white waves were rising all across it, the first snow that has fallen on the Bridge of Hamana.
Commentary: Book Four Winter Poems 279

The first snow lying on the Bridge of Hamana is likened to white waves rising all across the bridge. Seeing the snow on a bridge over the water as waves suits the scene of Hamana, where lake meets sea.
The next poem, 280, also begins with 'the first snow', so that this poem's final line and the next poem's first line run on, and two poems on the first snow stand side by side.
Poems 277 through 293 in this book center on snow, with poems on falconry set among them at 281 through 283.

First line, 'shiranami no', are breaking white waves, the image to which the snow is likened.
Second line, 'tachiwataru ka to', means as if rising all across, showing the whiteness of the snow covering the bridge.
Third line, 'miyuru kana', means so it seems, with the exclamatory kana. The poem breaks after the third line and the lower half is inverted.
Fourth line, 'hamana no hashi ni', is the bridge that spanned the outlet of Lake Hamana in Tōtōmi, a poetic place.
Final line, 'fureru hatsuyuki', is the first snow that has fallen, closing with a noun. The first line of the next poem, 280, also begins with 'the first snow'.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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