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Nikkyô Music Sheet (Nikkyô gakufu) No. 169
日響楽譜No.169 埼玉地方民謡 手鞠唄
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Saitama Local Folk Song: Handball Song (Saitama chihô min'yô: Temariuta)
Nikkyô Music Sheet (Nikkyô gakufu) No. 169
日響楽譜No.169 埼玉地方民謡 手鞠唄
Designer: Onchi Kôshirô (Japanese, 1891–1955)
Composer: Yamada Kôsaku (Japanese, 1886 – 1965)
Publisher: Nihon kôkyôgaku kyôkai shuppanbu (Nikkyô shuppan kyôkai)
Composer: Yamada Kôsaku (Japanese, 1886 – 1965)
Publisher: Nihon kôkyôgaku kyôkai shuppanbu (Nikkyô shuppan kyôkai)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1928 (Shôwa 3), October 15
Medium/Technique
Color lithograph; ink on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 30 × 22.4 cm (11 13/16 × 8 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mary and Robert Levenson
Accession Number2023.1134.1-2
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ClassificationsMusical scores
DescriptionTranslation of lyrics from Japanese, by Kuniko and Kendall Brown:
“The shiny thing on the mountain,
Is it the moon, a star, a firefly?
If it’s the moon, shall we pray to it?
If it’s a firefly, I’ll catch it, I’ll catch it.
‘Well, well, I lent ten bits."*
* A stock phrase ending many children’s ball-bouncing songs.
“The shiny thing on the mountain,
Is it the moon, a star, a firefly?
If it’s the moon, shall we pray to it?
If it’s a firefly, I’ll catch it, I’ll catch it.
‘Well, well, I lent ten bits."*
* A stock phrase ending many children’s ball-bouncing songs.
ProvenanceBy 2019, Mary and Robert Levenson, Belleair, FL; 2023, gift of Mary and Robert Levenson to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 2023)