Masakuni is my best friend.

haru no no ni naku ya uguisu natsukemu to waga e no sono ni ume ga hana-sakuThe warbler singing in the unplowed springtime fields―that it be content to live close at hand the plum blooms in my arbor now. (Master of Computation Shiki no Ōmichi)

ryūchō na eikaiwaa conversation in fluent English