Note: text as set by Phillips:

Õ zora no
Tsuki no hikari shi
Kiyokereba
Kage mishi mizu zo
Mazu kori keru

Text Authorship:

• by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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):

• by Sheena Phillips (b. 1958), "The purity of the moonlight freezes the water", copyright © 2003, first performed 2006 [ voices ], from Images, no. 1
      Score: Sheena Phillips [external link]  [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in English, a translation by Kenneth Rexroth (1905 - 1982) , appears in One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, no. 9, copyright © ; composed by Karólína Eiríksdóttir.
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