For the next, you have to imagine Japanese Noh theater.
This is called Tawai Nakimo.
The Noh theater mainly happens when the character
has a vision of the past.
Tawai Nakimo at the beginning is a very old woman,
then she becomes very young.
I am Tawai Nakimo, famed beauty, courtesan of the emperor Wai.
Dreamily transported for a moment to the past.
She dances.
How we dance to the slosh of silk and bracelets.
She returns to the present.
Now my age is 97 and I have come to this bridge land
to seek retreat.
How strange that around me all, all is bridges.
Bridge over river.
Bridge over stream.
Bridge over roadway.
Here even, bridge over little girl.
Everything, it seem, here have its own bridge.
And now she speaks in a sort of visionary ecstasy.
What is the bridge over me?
Bridge that passes above the head of Tawai Nakimo.