The Shinshuu Plains [A Series]

Saki River

I am swimming down Saki River

And to a rainbow I come hither,

I paint a sun and cure the weather

As cherry blossom leaves fall like feathers.

My trusty companion Issun

Ensures they’ll be no doom

Coming my way – not today

And not even very soon.

I paint the saki with my brush,

The flavor is indeed lush;

I drag a line from the saki to my

Mouth and swallow the stuff.

The saki cures the cherry blossom,

And helps it bloom so awesome;

The saki rivers of Nippon

Help people go far gone.

The Village Elder chugs a jug

Of some “Vista of the gods”,

Until he is just enough drunk

To sing and never sob.

There goes Tama with a wood pipe

Hanging out his mouth,

It holds a dime of one herb fine

And makes his head spin ‘round.

Flowers grow at my feet as I run

Through the Shinshuu Plains,

Its Saki River gives us some

Of the best medicine for pain.

“Lightning Brew” helps Ammy’s strength not feign,

Even in the hardest of the rains,

To save Nippon her valiant soul had came

And when she left it was never the same.