Shinagadori inayama toyo ni yuku mizu no na nomi yosorishi komorizuma wa mo

しなが鳥猪名山響に行く水の
名のみ寄そりし隠り妻はも

Roma-ji: Shinagadori inayama toyo ni yuku mizu no na nomi yosorishi komorizuma wa mo
English Translation: Like the stream that flows,
making Mount Ina resound
with its roaring voice,
only rumor linked us two,
ah, my hidden wife, my own
Meaning: Like the water flowing on, making Mount Ina resound, only our names were linked by rumor, ah, my hidden wife.
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems Ancient and Modern I 2708

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Expressing Feelings through Things"
Like the sound of water echoing across Mount Ina, rumors rose loudly about the two of them, yet the speaker still cannot meet his "hidden wife" as he wishes. The frustration of a love in which reputation runs ahead while nothing comes of it is expressed as a sigh.
Expressing feelings through water that flows making the mountain resound, the poem makes the loud sound of the water a metaphor for loud gossip. The word "toyo" (resound) is shared with "yamashita toyomi" two poems earlier, and ending with "wa mo" echoes "toishi kimi wa mo" in the preceding poem.
The original text notes a variant: "na nomi yosorite koitsutsu ya aramu," in which the lower verse means "only rumor links us; must I go on loving like this?" Here the main text, "na nomi yosorishi komorizuma wa mo," has been adopted.
The author is unknown. The anonymous poems of Book Eleven gather love poems by people whose names have not been handed down.

First line, "shinagadori": a pillow word attached to "Ina." The shinagadori is thought to be a kind of waterbird.
Second line, "inayama toyo ni": "making Mount Ina resound." Mount Ina is thought to be a mountain in the Ina River basin of Settsu Province, near present-day Ikeda in Osaka Prefecture.
Third line, "yuku mizu no": "like the flowing water." The lines up to here form a preface, leading from the loud sound of the water to "na" (name, reputation), while also echoing the "na" of "Ina" in the fourth line's "na."
Fourth line, "na nomi yosorishi": "linked to me only by rumor." "Yosoru" means to be connected to someone by gossip. "Nomi" (only) implies that they have not actually met.
Fifth line, "komorizuma wa mo": "ah, my hidden wife." "Komorizuma" is a wife visited in secret, and "wa mo" expresses deep feeling. The poem ends on a noun with particles attached.
Source: Manyoshu
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