by Fun'ya no Yasuhide (d. c885)
Translation by Shōtarō Kimura (b. 1912) and by Charlotte M. A. Peake
Foam Flowers
Language: English  after the Japanese (日本語)
Fire of the Autumn turns to Red and Gold The greenness of the Leaves before their grave Receives them, but for ever pure and cold The White foam blossoms on the tossing wave.
Confirmed with Sword and Blossom Poems. From the Japanese. Done into English Verse by Shotaro Kimura and Charlotte M. A. Peake. Illustrated by Japanese Artists, Tokyo, T. Hasegawa, Publisher.
Authorship:
- by Shōtarō Kimura (b. 1912), "Foam Flowers", appears in Sword and Blossom Poems. From the Japanese, in Blossom Songs [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- by Charlotte M. A. Peake , "Foam Flowers", appears in Sword and Blossom Poems. From the Japanese, in Blossom Songs [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Japanese (日本語) by Fun'ya no Yasuhide (d. c885) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "Foam Flowers", 1915 [ voice and piano ], from Sword and Blossom Poems II: Blossom Songs, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2021-04-21
Line count: 4
Word count: 33