Nagori naku suginu naru kana hototogisu kozo kataraishi yado to shirazu ya - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

名残なく過ぎぬなるかな時鳥
去年語らひし宿と知らずや

Roma-ji: Nagori naku suginu naru kana hototogisu kozo kataraishi yado to shirazu ya
English Translation: Leaving no trace,
you pass by, it seems, and go,
O cuckoo:
do you not know this is the house
where you talked with me last year?
Meaning: You pass by, it seems, leaving no trace behind, cuckoo; do you not know this is the house where you talked with me so warmly last year?
Commentary: Book Three Summer Poems 162

Headnote: "Composed as a poem on the cuckoo"
Composed on the topic of "the cuckoo." The poet reproaches the cuckoo for passing by without stopping, leaving no trace behind, as though it did not know this was the house where it sang to him so warmly last year. Treating the cuckoo as an old friend he talked with the year before, he voices the loneliness of being passed by in the tone of one reproaching a forgetful lover.
The author, "Provisional Major Counselor Sanekuni," is Fujiwara no Sanekuni, son of Palace Minister Fujiwara no Kiminori, who rose to Provisional Major Counselor. He was also known as a master of the flute.

First line, "nagori naku": "leaving no trace behind."
Second line, "suginu naru kana": "nu" is perfective, "naru" the attributive of "nari" expressing inference from sound, and "kana" exclamatory: "it seems to have passed, leaving only its voice." The poem pauses here.
Third line, "hototogisu": an address to the cuckoo.
Fourth line, "kozo kataraishi": "katarau" means to talk intimately, likening the cuckoo's singing to conversation with a person.
Fifth line, "yado to shirazu ya": "ya" is interrogative: "do you not know it is that house?" "Suginuru ka" in 165 of this book also speaks of a cuckoo that has passed.
Author: Fujiwara no Sanekuni
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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