by Fujiwara no Nagakata (1139 - 1191)
Translation © by Anthony Simon Thwaite (1930 - 2021)
ほととぎす / 鳴きつる方を
Language: Japanese (日本語)
ほととぎす 鳴きつる方を ながむれば, ただ有明の 月ぞ残れる
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- Also set in English, a translation by Anthony Simon Thwaite (1930 - 2021) , no title, first published 1964, copyright © ; composed by Otto Ketting.
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A cuckoo called
Language: English after the Japanese (日本語)
A cuckoo called [ ... ]
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Confirmed with Anthony Thwaite (editor), Geoffrey Bownas (Introduction), The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse,1964, revised edition 2009.
1 Ketting: "The"2 Ketting: "here"
Text Authorship:
- by Anthony Simon Thwaite (1930 - 2021), no title, first published 1964, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- a text in Japanese (日本語) by Fujiwara no Nagakata (1139 - 1191)
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Otto Ketting (b. 1935), "The cuckoo called", 1992, copyright © 1994 [ soprano and instrumental ensemble ], from Summer Moon, no. 2, Amsterdam: Donemus [sung text checked 1 time]
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