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松竹映画「地獄の顔」主題歌 長崎エレヂーー順三とみち子の唄
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Theme song Nagasaki Elegy and Song of Junzō and Michiko from the Shōchiku movie Face of Hell (Jigoku no kao)(Eiga shudaika: Nagasaki erejii, Junzô to Michiko no uta, jigoku no kao)
松竹映画「地獄の顔」主題歌 長崎エレヂーー順三とみち子の唄
Designer: Artist unidentified, Japanese
Lyricist: Shimada Kin'ya (Japanese, 1909 – 1978)
Composer: Ōkubo Tokujirō (Japanese, 1908 – 1974)
Arranger: Miyata Tōhō (Japanese, 1898 – 1986)
Publisher: Shinkō ongaku shuppansha
Lyricist: Shimada Kin'ya (Japanese, 1909 – 1978)
Composer: Ōkubo Tokujirō (Japanese, 1908 – 1974)
Arranger: Miyata Tōhō (Japanese, 1898 – 1986)
Publisher: Shinkō ongaku shuppansha
Japanese
Shôwa era
1947 (Shôwa 22), March 15
Medium/Technique
Color lithograph; ink on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 24.9 × 17.6 cm (9 13/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mary and Robert Levenson
Accession Number2023.1191
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMusical scores
DescriptionTranslation of lyrics from Japanese, by Kuniko and Kendall Brown:
"Waves sing, of Nagasaki’s
Harbor scenes, stone pavement
Light the love torch, at the House of Hope*
Ring the bell, of St. Mary's
I’ve dedicated to you, my chastity
I would not scatter, white roses
A maiden’s feelings, to the blue ocean
Let my dreams float, I sob and sob
Without parents, the orphans’
Songs too are sad, one-winged birds
My face smiling, my heart cries
I will go, the storm awaits me
Yesterday fell, drizzling rain
Today is falling, a rain of tears
Dream of Nagasaki, our gathered souls
Bind them in night fog, Ave Maria"
* orphanage name
"Waves sing, of Nagasaki’s
Harbor scenes, stone pavement
Light the love torch, at the House of Hope*
Ring the bell, of St. Mary's
I’ve dedicated to you, my chastity
I would not scatter, white roses
A maiden’s feelings, to the blue ocean
Let my dreams float, I sob and sob
Without parents, the orphans’
Songs too are sad, one-winged birds
My face smiling, my heart cries
I will go, the storm awaits me
Yesterday fell, drizzling rain
Today is falling, a rain of tears
Dream of Nagasaki, our gathered souls
Bind them in night fog, Ave Maria"
* orphanage name
Marks
marked "K" 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)