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Aki no Kyoku

秋の曲

[Genres]Sokyoku
[Stil]Meiji Shinkyoku
[Schule]Ikuta Ryû - 生田
[Komponiert]Yoshizawa Kengyō II - Koto

Geschichte (Tsuge Gen'ichi):

Aki no kyoku ('Ode to Autumn') is one of a set of pieces for koto and a voice called Kokin no kumi. All six waka poems (1) in this piece are from Books Four and Five of Kokin waka shu, a tenth century anthology of court poetry compiled by imperial command.

Tegoto, or the long instrumental interlude inserted between the fourth and fifth waka, was not originally composed by Yoshizawa, but added later by Matsuzaka Shun'ei (1854-1920) of Kyoto.

(1) Court poetry of thirty-one syllables.

Gedicht (Übersetzt von Tsuge Gen'ichi)

Only yesterday it seems
We gathered rice seedlings;
Now the fall winds blow
Tossing the full grown plants
To and fro.

Have the boatman
Of the milky way
Hide the rudder
When he brings you across
So that you can't return.

Sadness, when I see the moon;
My heart a thousand fragments.
Though this sadness of autumn
Is not mine alone,
Yet...

Our mountain village
Is so wretched
Especially in the autumn
We wake and wake again
To the crying of the deer.

Though not yet fallen
The leaves
Already foretell the end,
So deep is their color
That we see now before us.
Is it the white of waves
Breaking over the beach?
Or the white of chrysanthemums
Bending
In the autumn wind?
(maebiki)

Kinoo koso
sanae torishika
itsunoma ni
inaba soyogite
akikaze no fuku

Hisakata no
ama no kawara no
watashimori
kimi watarinaba
kaji kakushiteyo

Tsuki mireba
chiji ni mono koso
kanashikere
waga mi hitotsu no
aki ni wa aranedo

Yamazato wa
aki koso kotoni
wabishikere
shika no naku ne ni
me wo samashitsutsu

(tegoto)

Chiranedomo
kanetezo oshiki
momijiba wa
ima wa kagiri no
iro to mitsureba

Akikaze no
fukiage ni tateru
shiragiku wa
hana ka aranuka
nami no yosuruka

Aki no Kyoku spielt auf den folgenden Alben

Album Künstler
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