Yuki fureba iyatakayama no kozue ni wa mada fuyu nagara hana sakinikeri - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

雪降れば弥高山の梢には
まだ冬ながら花咲きにけり

Roma-ji: Yuki fureba iyatakayama no kozue ni wa mada fuyu nagara hana sakinikeri
English Translation: Because snow has fallen,
on Iyataka Mountain
upon the treetops,
though it is still winter now,
the blossoms have opened
Meaning: Since snow has fallen, on the treetops of Mount Iyataka flowers have bloomed, though it is still winter.
Commentary: Book Four Winter Poems 287

The snow lying on the treetops of Mount Iyataka is likened to blossoms that have opened in winter. The poem follows the traditional figure, current since the Kokinshū, of seeing snow as flowers.
Following the preceding poem, 286, which pictured snow that would not melt even in spring, this poem makes blossoms bloom with snow in winter, and poems linking snow and spring 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, 'yuki fureba', means since snow has fallen, the realis with ba forming a definite condition.
Second line, 'iyatakayama no', is the name of a mountain, iya taka suggesting ever higher.
Third line, 'kozue ni wa', means on the treetops.
Fourth line, 'mada fuyu nagara', means though it is still winter, showing the mismatch between season and blossom.
Final line, 'hana sakinikeri', means the flowers have bloomed, likening the snow on the treetops to blossoms and closing with the exclamatory keri.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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