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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation © by Laura Prichard

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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  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2023-06-17
Line count: 5
Word count: 23

Don’t think that the cherry tree’s
Language: English  after the French (Français) 
Don’t think that the cherry tree’s
delicate blossom would be so dear to you
If all summer long
that tree blossomed continuously
in our land.

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  • a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
    • Go to the text page.

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
    • Go to the text page.

 

This text was added to the website: 2024-02-12
Line count: 5
Word count: 25

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