Understanding | You say, "I will come."

Translation © by Kenneth Rexroth (1905 - 1982)

Komu to yū mo

Language: Japanese (日本語)

Komu to yū mo
Konu toki aru wo
Koji to yu wo
Komu to wa mataji
Koji to yu mono wo

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Confirmed with Kenneth Rexroth, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, New Directions Publishing, 1955, p.66

Text Authorship:

by Lady Otomo No Sakanoe (c695 - 750), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

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Also set in English, a translation by Kenneth Rexroth (1905 - 1982) , no title, appears in One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, no. 63, copyright © ; composed by David Cameron, Elizabeth Walton Vercoe.
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You say, "I will come."

Language: English after the Japanese (日本語)

You say, "I will come."
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Confirmed with Kenneth Rexroth, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, New Directions Publishing, 1955, p.66

Text Authorship:

by Kenneth Rexroth (1905 - 1982), no title, appears in One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, no. 63, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Japanese (日本語) by Lady Otomo No Sakanoe (c695 - 750), no title
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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 David Cameron (b. 1937), "Understanding", 1978, first performed 1979 [ voice and piano ], from Three Songs from the Japanese, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (b. 1941), "Lady Otomo No Sakanoe (II)", 1979 [ soprano, piano, and percussion ], from Herstory II: 13 Japanese Lyrics, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]

This text was added to the website: 2007-08-17
Line count: 5
Word count: 28