Hiku koma no kazu yori hoka ni mietsuru wa seki no shimizu no kage ni zo arikeru - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

引く駒の数よりほかに見えつるは
関の清水の影にぞありける

Roma-ji: Hiku koma no kazu yori hoka ni mietsuru wa seki no shimizu no kage ni zo arikeru
English Translation: More than the number
of the horses being led
that met my eyes there
were the shadows they had cast
in the clear spring at the barrier
Meaning: What made the horses being led seem more than their number was their reflections in the clear spring by the barrier.
Commentary: Book Three Autumn Poems 183

The horses led through Ōsaka Barrier at the welcoming of the tribute horses seemed more than their true number, because their forms were reflected in the barrier's clear spring. The poem depicts the scene of the horse welcoming through the conceit that, on a bright moonlit night, even the horses' reflections can be seen.
The Komamukae was the rite of going out to Ōsaka Barrier in the Eighth Month to receive horses sent in tribute from the provincial pastures. The poem draws on a poem by Ki no Tsurayuki in the Shūiwakashū, which imagines the Mochizuki horses being led past, their reflections showing in the clear spring of Ōsaka Barrier. The next poem, 184, also sings of the horse welcoming, and the two form a pair.
From poem 174 through poem 217 in this book a long sequence of moon poems follows, from the evening moon through the bright moon of the fifteenth night of the Eighth Month to the moon at dawn, singing of the moon in all its aspects and of the heart that gazes on it.

First line, 'hiku koma no', means of the horses being led, the horses of the welcoming rite.
Second line, 'kazu yori hoka ni', means beyond their number, showing that they seemed more numerous.
Third line, 'mietsuru wa', means what was seen, tsuru being the attributive form of the perfective tsu.
Fourth line, 'seki no shimizu no', is the clear spring of Ōsaka Barrier, a poetic place often sung in poems of the horse welcoming.
Final line, 'kage ni zo arikeru', uses kage, reflection, in a binding where zo closes on the attributive keru. The line has an extra syllable.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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