Ika bakari kami mo ureshi to mikasayama futaba no matsu no chiyo no keshiki o - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

いかばかり神も嬉しとみかさ山
二葉の松の千代のけしきを

Roma-ji: Ika bakari kami mo ureshi to mikasayama futaba no matsu no chiyo no keshiki o
English Translation: How very gladly
must the god be looking on
from Mount Mikasa
at the two-leaved pine sapling
and its look of a thousand ages
Meaning: How gladly the god of Mount Mikasa must be watching the young two-leaved pine, already showing signs of the thousand ages to come.
Commentary: Book Five Celebration Poems 322

How gladly the god of Mount Mikasa must gaze upon the two-leaved pine seedling and its promise of a thousand ages, the poem says, with mikasa meaning both 'see' and Mount Mikasa. At the foot of Mount Mikasa stands the Kasuga Shrine of the Fujiwara clan's tutelary gods, and since a two-leaved pine is often sung as a figure for a child's future, the poem can be read as celebrating the future of a young member of the Fujiwara.
From poem 322 through poem 326 in this book come poems celebrating a thousand and ten thousand ages, mingling words tied to the Fujiwara clan such as Mount Mikasa, Ame no Koyane and wisteria.
The author, Suō no Naishi, was a daughter of Taira no Munenaka, Governor of Suō, and her name was Nakako. She served as a lady-in-waiting to four emperors, Go-Reizei, Go-Sanjō, Shirakawa and Horikawa, and one of her poems appears in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.

First line, 'ika bakari', means how much, gauging the depth of the god's joy.
Second line, 'kami mo ureshi to', means the god too, gladly, pointing to the Kasuga god of Mount Mikasa.
Third line, 'mikasayama', is a pivot word in which mi means to see and mikasa names Mount Mikasa, a poetic place in Yamato, left in kana. The poem breaks after the third line and the lower half is inverted. Mount Mikasa is also sung in poem 325 in this book.
Fourth line, 'futaba no matsu no', means of the pine with its first two leaves, a figure for a young child.
Final line, 'chiyo no keshiki o', means its look of a thousand ages, the object of 'see' in the third line, placed after it by inversion.
Author: Suo no Naishi
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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