Ever the same.

It would not occur to a Tōkyō editor to invite his readers in the silly season to answer the question, “Have women a sense of humour?” But, if it did, such quatrains as follow might convince him that they have:

Warning.

I am my master’s

Single-flowered cherry;

Folk seeking blossom

Bend no boughs here.

Waiting.

All night I waited,

Yet my lord came not;