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Polydor Harmonica Piece
学生行進曲
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Student March (Gakusei kôshinkyoku)
Polydor Harmonica Piece
学生行進曲
Designer: Artist unidentified, Japanese
Composer: Yuyama Mitsusaburō (Japanese, dates unknown)
Arranger: Matsumura Mataichi (Japanese, 1898 – 1922)
Publisher: Sinfonii gakufu shuppansha (Japanese)
Composer: Yuyama Mitsusaburō (Japanese, dates unknown)
Arranger: Matsumura Mataichi (Japanese, 1898 – 1922)
Publisher: Sinfonii gakufu shuppansha (Japanese)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1930 (Shôwa 5), March 10
Medium/Technique
Color lithograph; ink on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 25.7 × 18.4 cm (10 1/8 × 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mary and Robert Levenson
Accession Number2023.1170
ClassificationsMusical scores
DescriptionTranslation of lyrics from Japanese, by Kuniko and Kendall Brown:
"We students, our hearts are young
A young heart is the flag of hope
Look overhead high in the blue sky
The flag of hope flutters in the wind.
We students, the heroes of ‘sports’
When take up ‘bats,’ or grab ‘oars’
Whether on land, or at sea, it’s our stage
Our hearts dance, our arms tremble.
We students, our hearts are young
Young hearts, locking hands together
Striding in town with the evening wind
Sometimes we drink and sing at a ‘café.’
We students, our ambition is high
In the future, we’ll be scientists, officials
Or companies’ executive officers
Dreaming of this, work hard, work hard."
"We students, our hearts are young
A young heart is the flag of hope
Look overhead high in the blue sky
The flag of hope flutters in the wind.
We students, the heroes of ‘sports’
When take up ‘bats,’ or grab ‘oars’
Whether on land, or at sea, it’s our stage
Our hearts dance, our arms tremble.
We students, our hearts are young
Young hearts, locking hands together
Striding in town with the evening wind
Sometimes we drink and sing at a ‘café.’
We students, our ambition is high
In the future, we’ll be scientists, officials
Or companies’ executive officers
Dreaming of this, work hard, work hard."
Marks
“fumi” (?) 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)