春雨者 甚勿零 櫻花 未見尓 散巻惜裳
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Note: this is a reading version of the text: "春雨はいたくな降りそ桜花いまだ見なくに散らまく惜しも"
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, appears in Man'yōshū - 万葉集, no. 1870, first published 759 [author's text not yet checked 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):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in French (Français), a translation possibly by Roger Bersihand ; composed by Francesco Santoliquido.
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Tombe doucement, O toi, pluie du printemps ! Et n’éparpille pas Les fleurs des cerisiers Avant que je les aie vues.
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Confirmed with La littérature japonaise par Roger Bersihand, Presses Universitaires de France, 1956.
Text Authorship:
- possibly by Roger Bersihand , no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Japanese (日本語) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , appears in Man'yōshū - 万葉集, no. 1870, first published 759
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Francesco Santoliquido (1883 - 1971), "Tombe doucement...", 1919 [ voice and piano ], from Petits Poëmes Japonais, no. 1, The poems are incorrectly attributed to ‘Akahito’ on the score [sung text checked 1 time]
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2022-12-30
Line count: 5
Word count: 20