LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,103)
  • Text Authors (19,448)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Bansui Doi (1871 - 1952)

荒城の月 (Kōjō no Tsuki)
 (Sung text for setting by K. Yamada)
 Matches base text
Language: Japanese (日本語) 
春高楼の      花の宴
めぐる盃      かげさして
千代の松が枝   わけいでし
むかしの光     いまいずこ

秋陣営の       霜の色
鳴き行く雁の    数見せて
植うるつるぎに  照りそいし
むかしの光     いまいずこ

今荒城の       夜半の月
かわらぬ光      たがためぞ
垣にのこるは    ただかずら
松に歌うは      ただ嵐

天上影は       かわらねど
栄枯は移る     世の姿
写さんとてか   今もなお
嗚呼荒城の     夜半の月

Note: This song can be found in the Japanese Art Song Anthology, available from Classical Vocal Reprints.

Transliteration (Romaji):

Haru kōrō no hana no en
Meguru sakazuki kage sashite
Chiyo no matsugae wake-ideshi
Mukashi no hikari ima izuko

Aki jin’ei no shimo no iro
Naki-yuku kari no kazu misete
Uuru tsurugi ni teri-soishi
Mukashi no hikari ima izuko

Ima kōjō no yowa no tsuki
Kawaranu hikari ta ga tame zo
Kaki ni nokoru wa tada kazura
Matsu ni utō wa tada arashi

Tenjō kage wa kawaranedo
Eiko wa utsuru yo no sugata
Utsusan toteka ima mo nao
Aa kōjō no yowa no tsuki

Composition:

    Set to music by Kōsaku Yamada (1886 - 1965) and by Rentarō Taki (1879 - 1903), "荒城の月 (Kōjō no Tsuki)", 1918 [ voice and piano ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Bansui Doi (1871 - 1952), "荒城の月", written 1898

See other settings of this text.


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-10-03
Line count: 16
Word count: 32

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris