Taki no oto wa taete hisashiku narinuredo na koso nagarete nao kikoekere - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

滝の音は絶えて久しくなりぬれど
名こそ流れてなほ聞こえけれ

Roma-ji: Taki no oto wa taete hisashiku narinuredo na koso nagarete nao kikoekere
English Translation: Though the waterfall
has long since ceased to sound,
so many years ago,
still its name flows on and on,
heard among us even now
Meaning: The sound of the waterfall ceased long ago, yet its name has flowed on through the years and is still heard today.
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Poems I 1035

Headnote: "Composed when I went to Daikakuji in Saga and various people composed poems"
This poem was composed when he visited Daikakuji in Saga and composed poems with others. The sound of the falls has long ceased, yet its name flows on and is still heard, he says. The falls built at Saga-in, the predecessor of Daikakuji, had long since dried and fallen silent, but he recalls the past, saying their fame still lives in the world. "Flow" and "be heard" are words associated with the falls, reviving its memory in language. These falls later came to be called the Nakoso Falls.
The author, "Kintō, Former Major Counselor," is Fujiwara no Kintō. A son of Regent Fujiwara no Yoritada, he rose to provisional major counselor. He excelled in Chinese and Japanese poetry and music, compiled the Wakan Rōeishū, and wrote the treatise Shinsen Zuinō. A poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
This poem is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. Where the preceding poem, 1034, sings of knowing a waterfall by its sound, this one sings of the name of falls whose sound has ceased, so that the presence and absence of the sound form a pair. It is also close to "na wa nokorikeri" in 1030 in singing of a name remaining after the thing itself is lost. The original headnote writes the temple as "Daigakuji," but since Daikakuji in Saga is meant, it is given here as Daikakuji.

First line, "taki no oto wa": "the sound of the waterfall." It is a hypermetric line of six syllables. It answers "ochikuru taki no oto sezariseba" in the fourth and fifth lines of the preceding poem, 1034.
Second line, "taete hisashiku": "long since it ceased."
Third line, "narinuredo": "nure" is the realis of the perfective "nu" and "do" an adversative conjunctive particle, "though it has become so."
Fourth line, "na koso nagarete": "na" means fame and "nagaru," to flow, means to be handed down, a word associated with the falls. "Koso" is an emphatic binding particle closing with "kere" in the fifth line. It answers "na wa nokorikeri" in the fifth line of 1030 of this book.
Fifth line, "nao kikoekere": "kikoyu" means for a reputation to be heard, also associated with the sound of the falls. "Kere" is the realis of the exclamatory "keri," "it is heard even now."
Author: Fujiwara no Kintō
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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