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This is a Jiuta piece in the Tegotomono style from the Ikuta Ryű school . This piece was composed for koto by Ikuyama Kengyo . This piece was composed for shamisen by Ikuyama Kengyo .

History (from Tsuge Gen'ichi)
Hagi no tsuyu ('Dew on the Bush Clover') is a typical Kyoto-style tegoto-mono jiuta piece. The text expresses the sentiments of a woman, likened to a bush clover in the autumn field, who falls in love with a heartless man whose visits and letters have stopped.

Of special interest are the voices of autumn insects imitated in the instrumental part.

Poem (translated by Tsuge Gen'ichi)
Dampened unexpectedly at the sleeve,
The bush clover did not resist
And soon found herself
Drenched with dew
From the beckoning plume grass.

It is now too late for reproach,
And even the vine leaves
Have ceased to show their backs (1),
Since there is not even a breeze

Of a message from you.
My loneliness is deepened
By a monotonous
Fulling block
Sounding through the autumn night,
And by a forlorn pine cricket

Which seems to tell me
To pine even more,
Keeping me sleepless
Under a clear moon.

Oh, wild goose
Flying across the sky,
May I ask a favor?
Do you know where my love lives,
And can you
Take him a message?

(1) Utilizing a pun, the arrowroot, or kudzu vine, is conventionally associated with resentment (urami), because the backside of its leaves are white and turn easily in the wind (urami-kuzu).

Hagi no Tsuyu appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Abe Keiko - 03  (Listen)	Kawase Junsuke II		Abe Keiko
Abe Keiko Record Set - 10  (Listen)	Kawase Junsuke III	Fujii Kunie	Abe Keiko
Fascination of the Shakuhachi - 2  (Listen)	Yamamoto Hozan	Sawai Tadao	Yagi Keiji
A te-goto piece composed by IKUYAMA kengyo of Kyoto during the early years of the Meiji Era. The sangen is in the hon-choshi tuning and the koto part, composed by the kengyo himself, is in hankumoi. The lyrics are said to have been wrirten by a certain KAWASE. It describes a woman lamenting a futile love affair, and featutes many references to the autumn season.
Ikuta Ryu Sokyoku Senshu Volume 08  (Listen)
Koto and Shamisen Gendai Meikyoku Shu 09  (Listen)
Sankyoku  (Listen)	Yamamoto Hozan	Sawai Tadao	Yagi Keiji
Shakuhachi no Shinzui-Sankyoku Gasso - 03  (Listen)	Yamaguchi Goro
Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 38  (Listen)		Yonekawa Toshiko	Ota Satoko
Yomigaeru - Revived  (Listen)