Takasago no onoe no matsu ni fuku kaze no oto ni nomi ya wa kikiwataru beki - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

高砂の尾上の松に吹く風の
音にのみやは聞きわたるべき

Roma-ji: Takasago no onoe no matsu ni fuku kaze no oto ni nomi ya wa kikiwataru beki
English Translation: Like the wind that blows
through the pines upon the peak
of Takasago,
must I go on hearing you
only as a distant sound?
Meaning: Like the wind that sounds through the pines on the peak of Takasago, must I go on knowing you only by rumor, forever hearing and never meeting?
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems I 652

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed as a love poem when hundred-poem sequences were presented"
Like the preceding poem, a love poem from the Kyūan sequences. Like the sound of the wind blowing through the pines on the peak of Takasago, he asks, must I go on hearing of you only by rumor? The first three lines are a preface leading to "oto," "sound," and in the pine wind of Takasago, a famed place of Harima, he overlays his longing for one he can only hear of from afar and never meet, voicing his impatience that things cannot go on this way.
The author, "Akisuke, Master of the Capital Office of the Left," is Fujiwara no Akisuke. The son of Master of the Office of Palace Repairs Fujiwara no Akisue, he served as Master of the Capital Office of the Left and compiled the Shika Wakashū at the command of Retired Emperor Sutoku. He laid the foundations of the poetic learning of the Rokujō Fujiwara house and has a poem in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
Poem 671 of this book also speaks of love through the "sound" of the wind: "oto ni wa tateji."

First line, "Takasago no": Takasago is a famed place in Harima, known for its pines.
Second line, "onoe no matsu ni": "onoe" is the top of a mountain peak.
Third line, "fuku kaze no": "like the sound of the blowing wind." The first three lines form a preface leading to "oto" in the fourth line.
Fourth line, "oto ni nomi ya wa": "oto," the sound of the wind, turns to mean rumor or report. "Ya wa" is a rhetorical binding particle that closes with the attributive "beki" in the last line. It shares the word with "oto ni wa tateji" in the fourth line of 671.
Fifth line, "kikiwataru beki": "wataru" means to go on doing, "must I go on hearing only rumors? Surely not."
Author: Fujiwara no Akisuke
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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