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Shôchiku Harmonica Super Special Music Sheet (Shôchiku kinema chôtokusen gakufu) No.120
松竹キネマ超特選楽譜120番 じっと見つめたその瞳
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Gazing Eyes (Jitto mitsumeta sono hitomi)
Shôchiku Harmonica Super Special Music Sheet (Shôchiku kinema chôtokusen gakufu) No.120
松竹キネマ超特選楽譜120番 じっと見つめたその瞳
Designer: Artist unidentified, Japanese
Composer: Shôchiku kinema Kamata ongaku bu
Arranger: Nakatani Sadaichi (Japanese, dates unknown)
Lyricist: Shôchiku kinema Kamata ongaku bu
Publisher: Shôchiku kinema gakufu shuppan sha (Japanese)
Composer: Shôchiku kinema Kamata ongaku bu
Arranger: Nakatani Sadaichi (Japanese, dates unknown)
Lyricist: Shôchiku kinema Kamata ongaku bu
Publisher: Shôchiku kinema gakufu shuppan sha (Japanese)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1931 (Shôwa 6), January 18
Medium/Technique
Color lithograph; ink on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 26.5 × 19.1 cm (10 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mary and Robert Levenson
Accession Number2023.1115
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMusical scores
DescriptionTranslation of lyrics from Japanese, by Kuniko and Kendall Brown:
"Burning lips, fiery sighs, White arms circle my neck
“If you dump me, I’ll die,” Those gazing eyes.
Even amidst the tryst, Worry about parting later,
“Just kill me as I am,” Those gazing eyes.
Even knowing it’s half lies, Woman are vulnerable to love
“Don’t deceive me with tears,” Those gazing eyes.
Yesterday and the day before, After being together why so sad?
“Your face is too hateful to think of,” Those gazing eyes.
Knowing it will be trouble, This is my deep feeling,
“Would you accept a drink?” Those gazing eyes.
Making me wait, finally appearing, Then leaving, is this manly?
“Leave if you can.” Those gazing eyes.
In the world’s halfhearted way, Living forever without love,
“I long to fly into that sky,” Those gazing eyes."
"Burning lips, fiery sighs, White arms circle my neck
“If you dump me, I’ll die,” Those gazing eyes.
Even amidst the tryst, Worry about parting later,
“Just kill me as I am,” Those gazing eyes.
Even knowing it’s half lies, Woman are vulnerable to love
“Don’t deceive me with tears,” Those gazing eyes.
Yesterday and the day before, After being together why so sad?
“Your face is too hateful to think of,” Those gazing eyes.
Knowing it will be trouble, This is my deep feeling,
“Would you accept a drink?” Those gazing eyes.
Making me wait, finally appearing, Then leaving, is this manly?
“Leave if you can.” Those gazing eyes.
In the world’s halfhearted way, Living forever without love,
“I long to fly into that sky,” Those gazing eyes."
Marks
unread mark at lower right
ProvenanceBy 2019, Mary and Robert Levenson, Belleair, FL; 2023, gift of Mary and Robert Levenson to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 2023)