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Victor Harmonica Sheet (Bikutȃ hȃmonika gakufu) No.12
東京行進曲
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Tokyo March (Tôkyô kôshinkyoku)
Victor Harmonica Sheet (Bikutȃ hȃmonika gakufu) No.12
東京行進曲
Designer: Saitô Kazô (Japanese, 1887 – 1955)
Lyricist: Saijô Yaso (Japanese, 1892 – 1970)
Composer: Nakayama Shinpei (Japanese, 1887 – 1952)
Arranger: Matsuhara Chikashi (Japanese, born in 1905)
Publisher: Vikutȃ shuppansha (Japanese)
Lyricist: Saijô Yaso (Japanese, 1892 – 1970)
Composer: Nakayama Shinpei (Japanese, 1887 – 1952)
Arranger: Matsuhara Chikashi (Japanese, born in 1905)
Publisher: Vikutȃ shuppansha (Japanese)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1929 (Shôwa 4), May 3, 5th printing; 1st printing 1929 (Shôwa 4), May 1
Medium/Technique
Color lithograph; ink on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 26.2 × 19.1 cm (10 5/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mary and Robert Levenson
Accession Number2023.1161
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMusical scores
DescriptionTranslation of lyrics from Japanese, by Kuniko and Kendall Brown:
“The old, nostalgic willows of Ginza
Who recalls those middle-aged coquettes?
Dancing to ‘jazz,’ feasting on ‘liquor’
Day breaks in a ‘dancer’s’ rain of tears.
In the lonely Marunouchi Building’s window
Weeping, a man may write a letter
A rose found on the road at ‘rush hour’
A keepsake dyed in her memory.
Vast Tokyo, small for wooing
Fascinating Asakusa, for trysting
You by subway, me by ‘bus’
But no ‘stops’ for lovers.
Shall we see a movie, shall we drink tea?
Shall we elope by the Odakyu railway?
In transformed Shinjuku, the Musashino
Moon rises over a department store roof."
“The old, nostalgic willows of Ginza
Who recalls those middle-aged coquettes?
Dancing to ‘jazz,’ feasting on ‘liquor’
Day breaks in a ‘dancer’s’ rain of tears.
In the lonely Marunouchi Building’s window
Weeping, a man may write a letter
A rose found on the road at ‘rush hour’
A keepsake dyed in her memory.
Vast Tokyo, small for wooing
Fascinating Asakusa, for trysting
You by subway, me by ‘bus’
But no ‘stops’ for lovers.
Shall we see a movie, shall we drink tea?
Shall we elope by the Odakyu railway?
In transformed Shinjuku, the Musashino
Moon rises over a department store roof."
Marks
“S Kazō” at lower left
ProvenanceBy 2019, Mary and Robert Levenson, Belleair, FL; 2023, gift of Mary and Robert Levenson to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 2023)