Picking Lotus Flowers | A day with a gentle breeze is a sunny day

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by Sato Haruo (1892 - 1964)

Translation © by Qi Feng Wu

採蓮

Language: Japanese (日本語) after the Chinese (中文)

Our translations: ENG

さわやかに風や日かげや
花はちす汀（みぎわ）をつつみ
見えてもせで蓮（はちす）採る子や
花がくれかたらふ聲す

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Text Authorship:

by Sato Haruo (1892 - 1964) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Chinese (中文) by Duan Shuqing (c1510 - c1600)
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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 Akutagawa Yasushi (1925 - 1989), "採蓮", from 車塵集, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Qi Feng Wu) , "Picking Lotus Flowers", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Picking Lotus Flowers

Language: English after the Japanese (日本語)

A day with a gentle breeze is a sunny day
I stop at the river with lotus flowers in Bi Zhou 
I cannot see the lotus-picking girls
I can only hear their talking under the flowers.

Text Authorship:

Translation from Japanese (日本語) to English copyright © 2023 by Qi Feng Wu, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in Japanese (日本語) by Sato Haruo (1892 - 1964)
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in Chinese (中文) by Duan Shuqing (c1510 - c1600)
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2023-08-24
Line count: 4
Word count: 36