In this video episode [3:19] from The Favorite Poem Project, Kiyoshi Houston, a middle school student who is living in California, describes himself and explains why Sone No Yoshitada's poem entitled "The Lower Leaves of the Trees" connects to his love of nature and to the lives of his American and Japanese ancestors. Then Houston reads aloud English and Japanese lines from "The Lower Leaves of the Trees" by Sone No Yoshitada.