We met, and travelled together into Sen-Go

Through all the thirty-six folds of the turning and twisting waters;

Into a valley of a thousand bright flowers ...

that was the first valley,

And on into ten thousand valleys

full of voices and pine-winds.

With silver harness and reins of gold,

prostrating themselves on the ground,

Out came the East-of-Kan foreman and his company;

And there came also the “True-man” of Shi-yo to meet me,