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Nakayama Shinpei Composes Music Sheet （Nakayama Shinpei Sakkyou gakufu）
女給 君代の唄
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Song of the Waitress Kimiyo (Jokyȗ Kimiyo no uta)
Nakayama Shinpei Composes Music Sheet （Nakayama Shinpei Sakkyou gakufu）
女給 君代の唄
Designer: Artist unknown, Japanese
Lyricist: Saijō Yaso (Japanese, 1892 – 1970)
Composer: Nakayama Shinpei (Japanese, 1887 – 1952)
Publisher: Shinkō ongaku shuppansha
Lyricist: Saijō Yaso (Japanese, 1892 – 1970)
Composer: Nakayama Shinpei (Japanese, 1887 – 1952)
Publisher: Shinkō ongaku shuppansha
Japanese
Shôwa era
1932 (Shôwa 7), April 30
Medium/Technique
Color lithograph; ink on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 26 × 18.9 cm (10 1/4 × 7 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mary and Robert Levenson
Accession Number2023.1166
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMusical scores
DescriptionTranslation of lyrics from Japanese, by Kuniko and Kendall Brown:
"After all, I’m but a drifting flower
Getting tipsy, and laughing, amusingly
Even if I try to cry, the past is the past
I can’t return to maidenhood"
"After all, I’m but a drifting flower
Getting tipsy, and laughing, amusingly
Even if I try to cry, the past is the past
I can’t return to maidenhood"
ProvenanceBy 2019, Mary and Robert Levenson, Belleair, FL; 2023, gift of Mary and Robert Levenson to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 2023)