Chapter II: Figure by Okumura Masanobu

Garbed in flowing folds of light,
Azure, emerald, rose, and white,
Watchest thou across the night.

Crowned with splendor is thine head:
All the princes great and dead
Round thy limbs their state have shed--

Calm, immutable to stand--
Gracious head and poisèd hand--
O'er the years that flow like sand.