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New Tokyo March, Theme Song from the Nikkatsu Film (Shin Tokyo koshinkyoku, Nikkatsu eiga shudaika)
Japan Victor Special Selection Music Sheet (Nihon Bikutȃ chôtokusen gakufu) No. 4
日活映画主題歌 新東京行進曲
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Theme song from the Nikkatsu movie Shin Tōkyō kōshinkyoku (New Tokyo March) (Shin Tôkyô kôshinkyoku: Eiga shudaika)
New Tokyo March, Theme Song from the Nikkatsu Film (Shin Tokyo koshinkyoku, Nikkatsu eiga shudaika)
Japan Victor Special Selection Music Sheet (Nihon Bikutȃ chôtokusen gakufu) No. 4
日活映画主題歌 新東京行進曲
Designer: Saitō Kazō (Japanese, 1887 – 1955)
Lyricist: Saijō Yaso (Japanese, 1892 – 1970)
Composer: Nakayama Shinpei (Japanese, 1887 – 1952)
Publisher: Bikutā shuppansha (Japanese)
Lyricist: Saijō Yaso (Japanese, 1892 – 1970)
Composer: Nakayama Shinpei (Japanese, 1887 – 1952)
Publisher: Bikutā shuppansha (Japanese)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1930 (Shôwa 5), November 5
Medium/Technique
Color lithograph; ink on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 31.3 × 45.7 cm (12 5/16 × 18 in.) (open)
Height x width: 31.3 × 22.9 cm (12 5/16 × 9 in.) (closed)
Height x width: 31.3 × 22.9 cm (12 5/16 × 9 in.) (closed)
Credit Line
Gift of Mary and Robert Levenson
Accession Number2023.1162
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMusical scores
DescriptionTranslation of lyrics from Japanese, by Kuniko and Kendall Brown:
"Unconsciously lured by the ‘neon signs’
Today too on Ginza’s ‘asphalt’ streets;
If I see her it’s torture, if not it’s sadness
A ‘cocktail’ of love and rumination.
Tokyo’s expressway of love
The intersection of meeting and parting;
Line 1 on the right, line 2 (nigō) on the left
That girl passes by, so too the number two (nigō).
At much-talked-about Kagurazaka
Tonight torrents of people for Tiger-Bisha day;*
Rubbing sleeves with cute apprentice geisha
The flowers of a just bought potted flower scatter.
Samurai films yesterday, ‘erotic revues’ today
‘Modern’ Asakusa ‘nonsense;’
That beauty of leg lines in the swirl of ‘jazz’
Tossing “it,”** night falls"
* The Tiger-Bishamon festival at Zenkokuji.
** Sex appeal as in Clara Bow, the “It Girl.”
"Unconsciously lured by the ‘neon signs’
Today too on Ginza’s ‘asphalt’ streets;
If I see her it’s torture, if not it’s sadness
A ‘cocktail’ of love and rumination.
Tokyo’s expressway of love
The intersection of meeting and parting;
Line 1 on the right, line 2 (nigō) on the left
That girl passes by, so too the number two (nigō).
At much-talked-about Kagurazaka
Tonight torrents of people for Tiger-Bisha day;*
Rubbing sleeves with cute apprentice geisha
The flowers of a just bought potted flower scatter.
Samurai films yesterday, ‘erotic revues’ today
‘Modern’ Asakusa ‘nonsense;’
That beauty of leg lines in the swirl of ‘jazz’
Tossing “it,”** night falls"
* The Tiger-Bishamon festival at Zenkokuji.
** Sex appeal as in Clara Bow, the “It Girl.”
Marks
“S Kazō” 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)