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Hakubi Super Special Music Sheet (Hakubi chô tokusen gakufu) No. 108
白眉超特選楽譜 108番 わたしこの頃憂鬱よ
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I'm Down These Days (Watashi konogoro yȗutsu yo)
Hakubi Super Special Music Sheet (Hakubi chô tokusen gakufu) No. 108
白眉超特選楽譜 108番 わたしこの頃憂鬱よ
Designer: Artist unidentified, Japanese
Composer: Koga Masao (Japanese, 1904 – 1978)
Lyricist: Takahashi Kikutarô (Japanese, 1901 – 1970)
Publisher: Hakubi shuppansha (Japanese)
Composer: Koga Masao (Japanese, 1904 – 1978)
Lyricist: Takahashi Kikutarô (Japanese, 1901 – 1970)
Publisher: Hakubi shuppansha (Japanese)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1931 (Shôwa 6), September 5
Medium/Technique
Color lithograph; ink on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 26.7 × 19.5 cm (10 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mary and Robert Levenson
Accession Number2023.1118.1-2
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMusical scores
DescriptionTranslation of lyrics from Japanese, by Kuniko and Kendall Brown:
“I’m Down These Days
A flower that blooms in a vase of pity
A flower that falls in a garden of tears
Life too quickly blooms and fall
Who knows the heart of a flower?
I’m blue these days.
There too is love that dies in pity
There too is love that disobeys for obligation
This transient world of whispered fate
Who knows the life of love?
I’m blue these days.
A shadow of love enshrined in tears
This heart is like one that is empty
Day and night my sorrow deepens
Who knows this dark life?
I’m down these days."
“I’m Down These Days
A flower that blooms in a vase of pity
A flower that falls in a garden of tears
Life too quickly blooms and fall
Who knows the heart of a flower?
I’m blue these days.
There too is love that dies in pity
There too is love that disobeys for obligation
This transient world of whispered fate
Who knows the life of love?
I’m blue these days.
A shadow of love enshrined in tears
This heart is like one that is empty
Day and night my sorrow deepens
Who knows this dark life?
I’m down these days."
Marks
unread mark at middle left
ProvenanceBy 2019, Mary and Robert Levenson, Belleair, FL; 2023, gift of Mary and Robert Levenson to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 2023)