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- CPDL #23379:
Sibelius 5
- Editor: Peter Bird (submitted 2011-04-16). Score information: Letter, 22 pages, 234 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Japanese and English text underlay. Text and piano part follow the 16-page choral score in the PDF file.
General Information
Title: Toro nagashi (Lantern-floating)
Composer: Peter Bird
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 2011
Description: May be sung in either English or Japanese (Romaji). This piece is dedicated to the victims of the 2011 tsunami, and to their surviving relatives. The first two poems were selected because they serve as metaphors for the disaster, and the last three poems were selected because they serve as metaphors for the summer Obon festival observances that may provide a measure of healing for some.
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Original text and translations
Five short tanka poems from the 13th-century “Ogura Hyakunin Isshu”. English translations (based on those of Clay MacCauley, 1917).
Japanese text
Yama kawa ni
Kaze no kaketaru
Shigarami wa
Nagare mo aenu
Momiji nari keri
Harumichi no Tsuraki
Kaze o itami
Iwa utsu nami no
Onore nomi
Kudakete mono o
Omou koro kana
Minamoto no Shigeyuki
Wata no hara
Yasoshima kakete
Kogi idenu to
Hito ni wa tsugeyo
Ama no tsuri bune.
Sangi Takamura
Se o hayami
Iwa ni sekaruru
Takigawa no
Warete mo sue ni
Awan to zo omou
Sutoku In
Tachi wakare
Inaba no yama no
Mine ni oru
Matsu to shi kikaba
Ima kaeri kon
Chunagon Yukihira
English text
In a mountain stream
There is a tangled barrier
Built by busy wind.
Yet it's only maple leaves,
Powerless to flow away.
Like a driven wave,
Dashed by fierce wind on a rock,
So am I: alone,
Crushed and broken on the shore,
Thinking of what used to be.
Over the wide sea,
T’ward its many distant isles,
Sailing to the door.
Those ahead will lead me on;
Heavenly fleet of stars.
Swiftly rushing stream,
Divided by a boulder
In its headlong flow:
Though divided, on it runs,
And at last unites again.
Though we are parted,
If on Mount Inaba's peak
I should hear the sound
Of the pine trees growing there,
I will come back to you.