Nunobiki Falls

Nunobiki Falls (布引の滝, Nunobiki no Taki) is a set of waterfalls near downtown Kobe, Japan, with an important significance in Japanese literature and Japanese art.

Nunobiki waterfalls comprises four separate falls: Ontaki, Mentaki, Tsutsumigadaki, and Meotodaki.

A well-known section of the Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari) describes a trip taken by a minor official and his guests to Nunobiki Falls.

They begin a poetry-writing contest, to which one of the guests, a commander of the guards, contributes: Which, I wonder, is higher- This waterfall or the fall of my tears As I wait in vain, Hoping today or tomorrow To rise in the world.

The minor official offers his own composition: It looks as though someone Must be unstringing Those clear cascading gems.