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日響楽譜No.124 われは幼く
Nikkyô Music Sheet (Nikkyô gakufu) No.124
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Down by the Salley Gardens (Ware wa osanaku)
日響楽譜No.124 われは幼く
Nikkyô Music Sheet (Nikkyô gakufu) No.124
Designer: Onchi Kôshirô (Japanese, 1891–1955)
Composer: Yamada Kôsaku (Japanese, 1886 – 1965)
Poet: William Butler Yeats (Irish, 1865 – 1939)
Translator: Yamada Kôsaku (Japanese, 1886 – 1965)
Translator: Ōki Atsuo (Japanese, 1895 – 1977)
Publisher: Nihon kôkyôgaku kyôkai shuppanbu (Nikkyô shuppan kyôkai)
Composer: Yamada Kôsaku (Japanese, 1886 – 1965)
Poet: William Butler Yeats (Irish, 1865 – 1939)
Translator: Yamada Kôsaku (Japanese, 1886 – 1965)
Translator: Ōki Atsuo (Japanese, 1895 – 1977)
Publisher: Nihon kôkyôgaku kyôkai shuppanbu (Nikkyô shuppan kyôkai)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1928 (Shôwa 3), March 18
Medium/Technique
Color lithograph; ink on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 29.8 × 22.4 cm (11 3/4 × 8 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mary and Robert Levenson
Accession Number2023.1131.1-3
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMusical scores
DescriptionTranslation of lyrics from Japanese, by Kuniko and Kendall Brown:
I Was Young (Japanese only)
"Descending the hill,
We two did meet,
You came, alone,
On white feet,
Love is easy,
You enticed me,
Alas, I was too young,
And passed on alone.
On the stream bank,
We stood that day too
On my shoulder,
Laying your white hand,
Life is easy,
You said . . .
Alas, I was so foolish,
And now I weep"
I Was Young (Japanese only)
"Descending the hill,
We two did meet,
You came, alone,
On white feet,
Love is easy,
You enticed me,
Alas, I was too young,
And passed on alone.
On the stream bank,
We stood that day too
On my shoulder,
Laying your white hand,
Life is easy,
You said . . .
Alas, I was so foolish,
And now I weep"
ProvenanceBy 2019, Mary and Robert Levenson, Belleair, FL; 2023, gift of Mary and Robert Levenson to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 2023)