Cerisiers en fleurs | Ne crois pas que du cerisier

Translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

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

Text 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.
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Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Arthur Vincent Lourié.
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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.
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Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksandr Nikolayevich Brandt , appears in Японская лирика (Japonskaja lirika), first published 1912 ; composed by Igor Stravinsky.
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Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksandr Nikolayevich Brandt ; composed by Arthur Vincent Lourié.
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Cerisiers en fleurs

Language: French (Français) after the Japanese (日本語)

Our translations: ENG

Ne crois pas que du cerisier
la fleur si tendre te serait bien chère
Si tout l’été 
son arbre fleurissait 
sur nos terres.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Japanese (日本語) by Yamabe no Akahito (700 - 736), no title, appears in Man'yōshū - 万葉集, no. 1426, first published 757
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Arthur Vincent Lourié (1891 - 1966), "Cerisiers en fleurs", 1915 [ soprano and piano ], from Японская сюита, на стихи Акахито и неизв. поэтов в пер. А.Брандта (Japonskaja sjuita) = Suite Japonaise, no. 2, Éd. Rouart, Lerolle, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website: 2023-06-17
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