Naki na nomi Takao no yama to iitatsuru kimi wa Atago no mine ni ya aru ran - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

なき名のみ高雄の山と言ひ立つる
君はあたごの峰にやあるらん

Roma-ji: Naki na nomi Takao no yama to iitatsuru kimi wa Atago no mine ni ya aru ran
English Translation: Nothing but false names,
high as Takao Mountain,
you go on raising;
are you, then, my enemy,
the peak of Atago Hill?
Meaning: You, who go on raising baseless rumors high as Mount Takao: are you then the peak of Atago, my enemy?
Commentary: Book Nine Miscellaneous Poems II 562

Headnote: "When a rumor arose about her and a monk who went back and forth to Takao, and Lieutenant Shigemoto heard of it and sent word asking if it was true"
The poet replies by asking whether he who raises nothing but baseless rumors, high as Mount Takao, is the peak of Atago, her enemy. The headnote shows that when a rumor arose linking her with a monk who went to Takao, and Lieutenant Fujiwara no Shigemoto heard of it and sent to ask if it was true, she answered with this poem. Using the names of Takao and Atago, mountains standing side by side to the northwest of the capital, she likens the man spreading the rumor to the peak of Atago, pivoting on "ada," enemy, and lightly strikes back. Following Mount Tatsuta in 560 and 561, it is another poem that lays rumor over a mountain's name.
The author, written as "Hachijō no Ōikimi," was a woman called Hachijō no Ōikimi, of whom little is known. Lieutenant Shigemoto is Fujiwara no Shigemoto, a son of Fujiwara no Kunitsune.

First line, "naki na nomi," means "nothing but baseless rumors," sharing the same line with the first line of the preceding poem, 561, "naki na nomi."
Second line, "Takao no yama to," means "as Mount Takao," singing of Mount Takao northwest of the capital and layering on it the sense of raising the rumor high.
Third line, "iitatsuru," means "raise in speech," taking up the sense of a name rising pivoted on "tatsu" in the second line of the preceding poem, 561.
Fourth line, "kimi wa Atago no," is a pivot word: "Atago" means Mount Atago northwest of the capital and "ada," enemy. It uses the name of Atago, which stands beside Takao.
Final line, "mine ni ya aru ran," means "are you the peak," with the binding particle "ya" resolved by the attributive form of the conjectural auxiliary "ran."
Author: Hachijō no Ōikimi
Source: Shui Wakashu
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