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Senow Music Sheet No. 26
セノオ楽譜二十六番 歌劇 蝶々夫人 夢を重ねし家よさらば
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Opera Madam Butterfly (Kageki Chōchōfujin, Yume wo kasaneshi ie yo saraba)
Senow Music Sheet No. 26
セノオ楽譜二十六番 歌劇 蝶々夫人 夢を重ねし家よさらば
Designer: Artist unknown, Japanese
Composer: Giacomo Puccini (Italian, 1858 – 1924)
Publisher: Seno'o ongaku shuppansha (Japanese)
Composer: Giacomo Puccini (Italian, 1858 – 1924)
Publisher: Seno'o ongaku shuppansha (Japanese)
Japanese
Taishô era
1922 (Taishô 11), April 15, 6th edition; 1st edition, 1916 (Taishô 5), October 20
Medium/Technique
Color lithograph; ink on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 30.6 × 22.5 cm (12 1/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mary and Robert Levenson
Accession Number2023.1100.1-2
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMusical scores
DescriptionTranslation of lyrics from Japanese, by Kuniko and Kendall Brown:
“Goodbye house of many dreams,
I shall suffer,
Forever, thinking of you,
Dear old hermitage,
I’m parting,
Holding unbearable pain in my heart
Goodbye, I must go,
Forever, forever"
“Goodbye house of many dreams,
I shall suffer,
Forever, thinking of you,
Dear old hermitage,
I’m parting,
Holding unbearable pain in my heart
Goodbye, I must go,
Forever, forever"
ProvenanceBy 2019, Mary and Robert Levenson, Belleair, FL; 2023, gift of Mary and Robert Levenson to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 2023)