1

Last year, with jade hands you offered cups of tea
boiled with snow brushed from the petals of plum blossoms!
" I'll recite fine poems for you, and serve you fine tea:
you'll remember forever the fifth house on West Bank! "

2

" Next year you must come again
and taste our tea once more
when the whole mountain is covered, front and back,
with blossoming cherry trees.
Please write a letter and let me know
when you'll be getting here —
I'll take you myself to pay a visit
to Miss Imamura, the geisha of them all! "