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Song of the Wood Sprit and Song of a Teacher, Barber,and Minister from the Opera The Sunken Bell [Die versunkene Glocke] by Gerhart Hauptmann (Kageki Chinsho, Hauputoman gensaku, Mori no nushi no uta/Kyoshi, tokoya, bokushi no uta)


オペラガクフ No.3 歌劇沈鐘ハウプトマン原作 森の主の歌/教師、床屋、牧師の歌
Opera Music Sheet (Opera gakufu) No. 3
Designer: Artist unidentified, Japanese
Composer: Takeuchi Heikichi (Japanese, 1887 – 1972)
Lyricist: Iba Takashi (Japanese, 1887 – 1937)
Publisher: Kyōeki shōsha shoten (Japanese)
Japanese
Taishô era
1919 (Taishô 8), April 30

Medium/Technique Color lithograph; ink on paper
Dimensions Height x width: 30.2 × 22.9 cm (11 7/8 × 9 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mary and Robert Levenson
Accession Number2023.1139.1-3
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMusical scores

DescriptionTranslation of lyrics from Japanese, by Kuniko and Kendall Brown:
Song of the Wood Sprit
“I’m the Wood Sprit who guards the woods,
Under me trees and shoots are fostered
From the drippings of my heart, they put out shoots."
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)