Migomori ni ashi no wakaba ya moenuramu Tamae no numa o asaru harugoma - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

みごもりに蘆の若葉や萌えぬらむ
玉江の沼をあさる春駒

Roma-ji: Migomori ni ashi no wakaba ya moenuramu Tamae no numa o asaru harugoma
English Translation: Hidden in the water,
have the young reed leaves begun
already to sprout?
In the marsh of Tamae
the spring colts graze and forage
Meaning: Have the young reed leaves already sprouted, hidden under the water? In the marsh of Tamae the spring colts are foraging.
Commentary: Book One Spring Poems I 35

Headnote: "Composed as a poem on spring colts when presenting a hundred-poem sequence to Retired Emperor Sutoku"
Composed on the topic "spring colts" for a hundred-poem sequence presented to Retired Emperor Sutoku, this poem watches young horses foraging in the marsh of Tamae and surmises that young reed leaves must have sprouted under the water. The conceit lies in learning of unseen budding beneath the water from the colts' movements.
The author, "Fujiwara no Kiyosuke Ason," is Fujiwara no Kiyosuke, son of Master of the Western Capital Fujiwara no Akisuke. He brought the poetic scholarship of the Rokujō Fujiwara house to maturity and wrote treatises such as Fukuro Zōshi and Ōgishō.

First line, "migomori ni": "hidden in the water."
Second line, "ashi no wakaba ya": the interrogative "ya" links with "ramu" in the third line.
Third line, "moenuramu": "have they sprouted, I wonder," and the poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "Tamae no numa o": Tamae is a poetic place celebrated for its reeds.
Fifth line, "asaru harugoma": spring colts searching for food, ending on a noun. In inverted order, it supplies afterward the basis for the conjecture of the first three lines.
Author: Fujiwara no Kiyosuke
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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