HAKU.
How strange! No sooner am I come to this land than they call me by my name! How can this be?
SECOND FISHERMAN.
Although your Honour is a man of China, your name and fame have come before you.
HAKU.
Even though my name be known, yet that you should know my face is strange surely!
THE TWO FISHERMEN.
It was said everywhere in the Land of Sunrise that your Honour, Rakuten, would come to make trial of the wisdom of Nihon. And when, as we gazed westwards, we saw a boat coming in from the open sea, the hearts of us all thought in a twinkling, “This is he.”
CHORUS.