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Dear friends, I bought this hanetsuki (羽根突き), an old ukiyo-e entitled "Little Girl with Battledore and New Year Pine Tree", by Utagawa Hiroshige I. Can anyone help me identify the poem inscribed on the work?

I think it is indecipherable. I tentatively highlight the following fragments: き羽の... (Ki-hane no...) “fabrics and feathers for hanetsuki...”; or 木羽の (kiba no – wooden tiles/shovels); or perhaps 年とるを〔？〕 (toshi toru o) “to grow old”; 惜しむ (oshimu) “to lament” or “to regret losing”; 利牛 (Rigyū), possibly related to the signature of the poet Ikeda Rigyū.
You guys can take a look at the Hiroshige work "the girld with battledore here:

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/329684
and here
https://chazen.wisc.edu/collection/6344/girl-with-battledore-woman-with-spring-greens/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Thank you in advance,
Renato

遣羽子や　また戀しらぬ妹かふり
利牛　
Yarihago ya mata koi shiranu imōtokaburi
Rigyū

A　battledore — or is she a younger sister who knows nothing of love
Rigyū

Regards,
I.Nagy

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