by Yamabe no Akahito (700 - 736)
我が背子に
Language: Japanese (日本語)
我が背子に 見せむと思ひし 梅の花 それとも見えず 雪の降れれば
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Kana form:わがせこに みせむとおもひし うめのはな それともみえず ゆきのふれればTransliteration
waga seko ni misenu to omoishi ume no hana sore to mo miezu yuki no furureba
Authorship:
- by Yamabe no Akahito (700 - 736), no title, appears in Man'yōshū - 万葉集, no. 1426, first published 757 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Maurice Delage (1879 - 1961) ; composed by Igor Stravinsky.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Arthur Vincent Lourié.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Hans Bethge (1876 - 1946) , "Betrachtung", appears in Japanischer Frühling / Nachdichtungen Japanischer Lyrik ; composed by Ludvig Irgens-Jensen, Max Kowalski.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksandr Nikolayevich Brandt , appears in Японская лирика (Japonskaja lirika), first published 1912 ; composed by Igor Stravinsky.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksandr Nikolayevich Brandt ; composed by Arthur Vincent Lourié.
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