Iwa tataku tani no mizu nomi otozurete natsu ni shirarenu miyamabe no sato - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

岩たたく谷の水のみおとづれて
夏に知られぬ深山辺の里

Roma-ji: Iwa tataku tani no mizu nomi otozurete natsu ni shirarenu miyamabe no sato
English Translation: Only the water
of the valley beating on the rocks
comes calling here:
a village by the deep hills
that summer never finds
Meaning: Only the valley water beating on the rocks comes calling here: a village by the deep mountains that summer never finds.
Commentary: Book Three Summer Poems 221

Headnote: "Composed on seeking the cool for a poetry contest held by Yorisuke, Minister of Justice"
Composed on "seeking the cool" for a poetry contest held by Fujiwara no Yorisuke, Minister of Justice. To this village by the deep mountains only the sound of valley water beating on the rocks comes calling, and summer passes by without ever finding it. Personifying summer, the poem portrays a mountain village so cool that even summer cannot find it, together with the voice of the stream.
The author, "Former Consultant Norinaga," is Fujiwara no Norinaga, son of Major Counselor Fujiwara no Tadanori, who rose to Consultant. He joined Retired Emperor Sutoku's side in the Hōgen Disturbance and was exiled to Hitachi. Known also as a master calligrapher, he was one of the poets of the Kyūan Hundred-Poem Sequence.
This poem and the next, 222, are both poems on seeking the cool composed for Yorisuke's poetry contest.

First line, "iwa tataku": "beating on the rocks," a swift-flowing valley stream.
Second line, "tani no mizu nomi": the restrictive "nomi" gives "only the valley water."
Third line, "otozurete": "coming to call," with an echo of "oto," the sound of the water.
Fourth line, "natsu ni shirarenu": "re" is the irrealis of the passive "ru" and "nu" the attributive of the negative: "unknown to summer." Like "natsu no hoka naru" in 210 and "hoka yori natsu o" in 212 of this book, it sings of a coolness lying outside summer.
Fifth line, "miyamabe no sato": ends on a noun, a village beside the deep mountains.
Author: Fujiwara no Norinaga
Source: Senzai Wakashu
Prev Poem: Akikaze wa nami to tomo ni ya koenuran madaki suzushiki Sue no Matsuyama
Next Poem: Iwama yori ochikuru taki no shiraito wa musubade miru mo suzushikarikeri