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重音童謡集 第一編
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Multiphonic Children's Songs No. 1 (Jȗon dôyôshȗ, dai ippen)
重音童謡集 第一編
Designer: Artist unknown, Japanese
Composer: Motoori Nagayo (Japanese, 1885 – 1945)
Composer: Kuzuhara Shigeru (Japanese, 1886 – 1961)
Publisher: Jidō geijutsu kyōkai (Japanese)
Composer: Motoori Nagayo (Japanese, 1885 – 1945)
Composer: Kuzuhara Shigeru (Japanese, 1886 – 1961)
Publisher: Jidō geijutsu kyōkai (Japanese)
Japanese
Taishô era
1925 (Taishô 14), March 20
Medium/Technique
Color lithograph; ink on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 22.4 × 15.4 cm (8 13/16 × 6 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mary and Robert Levenson
Accession Number2023.1150
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMusical scores
DescriptionTranslation of lyrics from Japanese, by Kuniko and Kendall Brown:
White Mantle (Shiro manto)
"How happy is my favorite
Mt. Fuji, from today in white hat,
White shawl and white ‘mantle.’
No matter how much snow falls
No matter how hard the wind blows
In calm spirit and good health, all smiles.
How happy is my favorite
Uncle’s souvenir of white hat
White shawl and white ‘mantle.’
From today, not cold in the snow
From today, not afraid of the wind
In calm spirit and good health, all smiles."
White Mantle (Shiro manto)
"How happy is my favorite
Mt. Fuji, from today in white hat,
White shawl and white ‘mantle.’
No matter how much snow falls
No matter how hard the wind blows
In calm spirit and good health, all smiles.
How happy is my favorite
Uncle’s souvenir of white hat
White shawl and white ‘mantle.’
From today, not cold in the snow
From today, not afraid of the wind
In calm spirit and good health, all smiles."
Marks
circular mark unidentified
ProvenanceBy 2019, Mary and Robert Levenson, Belleair, FL; 2023, gift of Mary and Robert Levenson to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 2023)