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Women’s Graphic Talkie Music Sheet (Fujin gahô tôkȋ gakufu) No.16
婦人画報トーキー楽譜十六番 制服の處女 (トピス映画「制服の處女」主題歌
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Girls in Uniform (Seifuku no shojo): Theme song of the Tobis movie Maedchen in Uniforn
Women’s Graphic Talkie Music Sheet (Fujin gahô tôkȋ gakufu) No.16
婦人画報トーキー楽譜十六番 制服の處女 (トピス映画「制服の處女」主題歌
Designer: Artist unknown, Japanese
Composer: Katô Shinobu (Japanese, dates unknown)
Lyricist: Saeki Takao (Japanese, 1902 – 1981)
Publisher: Fujin gahô (Japanese)
Composer: Katô Shinobu (Japanese, dates unknown)
Lyricist: Saeki Takao (Japanese, 1902 – 1981)
Publisher: Fujin gahô (Japanese)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1933 (Shôwa 8), April 1
Medium/Technique
Color lithograph; ink on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 25.7 × 35.9 cm (10 1/8 × 14 1/8 in.) (open)
Height x width: 25.7 × 17.9 cm (10 1/8 × 7 1/16 in.) (closed)
Height x width: 25.7 × 17.9 cm (10 1/8 × 7 1/16 in.) (closed)
Credit Line
Gift of Mary and Robert Levenson
Accession Number2023.1110
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMusical scores
DescriptionTranslation of lyrics from Japanese, by Kuniko and Kendall Brown:
“Maiden in Uniform
A lovely bouquet, schoolgirls
‘Sweet peas’ or ‘hyacinths’
Lonesome in uniform alone
Hearts full of spring’s mysteries.
A lovely bouquet, schoolgirls
To textbooks under their arms
Today they bid farewell, above the
School roof is the lone star of a tear.
A lovely bouquet, schoolgirls
By life’s tempests, though buffeted
Kindred spirits in ‘uniform’
Take good care, of each other"
“Maiden in Uniform
A lovely bouquet, schoolgirls
‘Sweet peas’ or ‘hyacinths’
Lonesome in uniform alone
Hearts full of spring’s mysteries.
A lovely bouquet, schoolgirls
To textbooks under their arms
Today they bid farewell, above the
School roof is the lone star of a tear.
A lovely bouquet, schoolgirls
By life’s tempests, though buffeted
Kindred spirits in ‘uniform’
Take good care, of each other"
ProvenanceBy 2019, Mary and Robert Levenson, Belleair, FL; 2023, gift of Mary and Robert Levenson to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 2023)