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Senow Music Sheet (Senô gakufu) No. 438
支那の子守歌
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Chinese Lullaby (Shina no komoriuta)
Senow Music Sheet (Senô gakufu) No. 438
支那の子守歌
Designer: Susuki Setsutarō (Japanese, born in 1881)
Composer: Robert Hood Bowers (American, 1878 – 1941)
Publisher: Seno'o ongaku shuppansha (Japanese)
Composer: Robert Hood Bowers (American, 1878 – 1941)
Publisher: Seno'o ongaku shuppansha (Japanese)
Japanese
Taishô era
1926 (Taishô 15), August 19
Medium/Technique
Color lithograph; ink on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 30.5 × 22.9 cm (12 × 9 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mary and Robert Levenson
Accession Number2023.1178
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMusical scores
DescriptionEnglish Lyrics with the music, Japanese given on back page:
"Sing a song, play at jumping
Alī looks like a Chinese boy
But, he sells girls with joy
Poor Min Toi!
Like being buffeted
At the water’s mercy, human life
Drifts on mysterious currents
Just like ripples.
My life,
After the great waves raged,
Is like ripples lapping calmly,
I wish it might be free like the waves."
"Sing a song, play at jumping
Alī looks like a Chinese boy
But, he sells girls with joy
Poor Min Toi!
Like being buffeted
At the water’s mercy, human life
Drifts on mysterious currents
Just like ripples.
My life,
After the great waves raged,
Is like ripples lapping calmly,
I wish it might be free like the waves."
Marks
square mark “sotsu” (kanji) 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)