Moeizuru kusaba nomi ka wa Ogasawara koma no keshiki mo harumekinikeri - Shika Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

萌え出づる草葉のみかは小笠原
駒のけしきも春めきにけり

Roma-ji: Moeizuru kusaba nomi ka wa Ogasawara koma no keshiki mo harumekinikeri
English Translation: Is it just the grass
and the leaves now sprouting? No,
at Ogasawara
even the ponies' bearing
has taken on the look of spring.
Meaning: Is it only the sprouting grass? No: at the pastures of Ogasawara, even the look of the ponies has turned to spring.
Commentary: Book One Spring Poems 13

At the pastures of Ogasawara, the poet says, not only the sprouting grass but even the bearing of the horses there has grown springlike. Taking grass and horses together into the spring scene, the poem conveys the liveliness of spring at the pasture.
The author is said to be Kakuga. It closes the sequence of three poems on spring ponies.

The first line, "now sprouting," means the shoots of grass coming up, continuing the sprouting of "horn-like shoots" in the preceding poem.
In the second line, "ka wa" is rhetorical: is it only the grass? No. The poem breaks here.
The third line, "Ogasawara," is a place known for its pastures in Kai Province, a famous place sung as a source of horses.
The fourth line, "even the ponies' bearing," continues the pony poems after the "ponies of spring" of 11 and the "untethered ponies" of the preceding poem.
The last line, "has taken on the look of spring," is the same phrase as the last line of 2 and the second line of 3. A phrase once used for mist is applied here to horses, showing spring spreading through everything.
Source: Shika Wakashu
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