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Miyako no Haru (Yamada Ryū)

都の春

[Genre]Sokyoku
[School]Yamada Ryū - 山田
[Composed]Yamase Shōin I - Koto

History (Tsuge Gen'ichi):

This piece is considered one of the most brilliant tegoto-mono pieces in the Yamase style koto repertoire. Yamase was engaged as the first professor of koto music, at the Tokyo Academy of Music, and composed the present work for the inauguration ceremony concert of the institute in 1890. The title means 'Spring in the Capital.'

Poem (translated by Tsuge Gen'ichi)

The brilliant light
Of sunrise:
Not a shadow remains,
Not a streak in the sky.

The winds from the Kamo River
Are still;
Spring has come
To the capital.
The trees, the meadows
Of field and mountain...

All are in flower.
The high slopes of Mt. Fuji
And the province of Michinoku,
Once heaped high
With white snow
Are now bare.

Melting,
It flows
In widening streams
Into the Bay of Naniwa.
After long journeys
From points far and wide
Across calm seas,
Ships put into harbor.

We are restored
To the flourishing age
Of our merciful
Great emperors.
Our voices in song
Shall rise forever!
Our voices in song
Shall rise forever!
加茂のかは風のどかなる、都の春になりぬれば、
野山のくさきおしなべて、
花咲きにけりしろたへの、ふじの高根もみぢの雲、
とけて流るるかはみづの、ゆくすゑ広き難波潟、
浪路のどけきよもの海、よせくる舟のうちつどひ、
よろづようたふ声ぞたえせぬ、

Miyako no Haru (Yamada Ryū) appears on the following albums

Album Artist

Koten Sōkyoku no Shinzui Volume 2 Koto : Shōji Okazono
Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō
Koto : Hagioka Shōin III
Shamisen : Fukuchi Masue

Koto no Miryoku - Disk 2 Koto : Yamauchi Kimiko
Play ButtonLe Koto de Yusen Kuzuhara et le Shakuhachi de Teiji Itoh Koto : Kuzuhara Yusen

Miyako no Haru / Ōmi Hakkei Koto : Nakanoshima Kin'ichi
Shakuhachi : Nōtomi Judō I
Voice : Nakanoshima Keiko
Koto : Nakanoshima Keiko
Shamisen : Shinagawa Shōzō

Sankyoku Gassō Dai Zenshū vol. 10 (三曲合奏大全集10) Voice : Fujii Chiyoga II
Koto : Ikari Mitaga
Shakuhachi : Ikeda Seizan II
Koto : Kishibe Michiga II
Shamisen : Kishibe Momoyo

Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 55 Shamisen : Nakanoshima Kin'ichi
Voice : Nakanoshima Keiko
Koto : Nakanoshima Keiko
Koto : Imai Keishō
Shakuhachi : Seki Wadō
Play ButtonYamada Ryu Sokyoku Meikyoku-shu Koto : Nakanoshima Kin'ichi
Shamisen : Shinagawa Masami
Voice : Nakanoshima Keiko
Koto : Nakanoshima Keiko
Shakuhachi : Nōtomi Judō II

Yamada Ryū Sōkyoku Tokusen 2 - Okayasu Ginuta (山田流箏曲特選 二ー岡康砧) Koto : Fujii Chiyoga II
Voice : Nakanoshima Keiko
Koto : Nakanoshima Keiko
Shamisen : Yamase Shōin III