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Hagi no Tsuyu

萩の露

[Genre]Jiuta
[Style]Tegotomono
[School]Ikuta Ryû - 生田
[Composed]Ikuyama Kengyō - Koto
Ikuyama Kengyō - Shamisen

History (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).
Itsushika mo
maneku obana ni
sode furesomete
ware kara nureshi
tsuyu no hagi
(ai)
imasara hito wa
uraminedo
kuzu no hakaze no
soyoto dani
(ai)
otozure taete
matsumushi no
hitorine ni naku
wabishisa wo
yowa ni kinuta no
uchisoete
(ai)
itodo omoi wo
kasaneyo to
tsuki ni ya koe wa
saenuran

(tegoto)

Iza saraba
sora yuku kari ni
koto towan
(ai)
koishiki kata ni
tamazusa wo
okuru yosuga no
ariya nashi ya to

Hagi no Tsuyu appears on the following albums

Album Artist
Play ButtonAbe Keiko - 03 Shakuhachi : Kawase Junsuke II
Shamisen : Abe Keiko
Voice : Fujii Kunie

Abe Keiko Record Set - 10 Shakuhachi : Kawase Junsuke II
Voice : Abe Keiko
Shamisen : Abe Keiko
Voice : Fujii Kunie
Koto : Fujii Kunie
Play ButtonFascination of the Shakuhachi - 2 Voice : Yagi Keiji
Shamisen : Yagi Keiji
Koto : Sawai Tadao
Shakuhachi : Yamamoto Hōzan
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 04 (下) Koto : Miyagi Kiyoko
Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō
Shamisen : Yazaki Akiko
Voice : Miyagi Kazue

Ikuta-Ryū Sōkyoku Senshū - volume 9 Voice : Matsuo Keiko
Shamisen : Matsuo Keiko
Koto : Matsuo Kazuko

Koto and Shamisen - Koten/Gendai Meikyoku Shū 09 Shamisen : Ōkubo Masanori
Shakuhachi : Aoki Reibo II
Koto : Yuize Shin'ichi
Voice : Okuno Gashō

Revived - The Art of Tomii Shunzan Shamisen : Hori Masami
Koto : Miyoshi Atsuko
Shakuhachi : Tomii Shunzan

Sankyoku Shamisen : Yagi Keiji
Koto : Sawai Tadao
Shakuhachi : Yamamoto Hōzan

Sankyoku - Hagi no Tsuyu / Sōkyoku - Godan Kinuta Shakuhachi : Aoki Reibo II
Voice : Inoue Michiko
Shamisen : Inoue Michiko
Koto : Matsuo Keiko

Sankyoku Gassō Dai Zenshū vol. 7 (三曲合奏大全集7) Koto : Tomiyama Seikin II
Shakuhachi : Yamamoto Hōzan
Voice : Tomiyama Seikin I
Shamisen : Tomiyama Seikin I

Sasagawa Shizue no Shigei Vol. 8 Shamisen : Sasagawa Shizue
Koto : Suzuki Kazuko
Play ButtonShakuhachi no Shinzui-Sankyoku Gasso - 03 Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō

Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 38 Voice : Yonekawa Toshiko
Koto : Yonekawa Toshiko
Voice : Ōta Satoko
Shamisen : Ōta Satoko

Yamada - 06 Koto : Uehara Masaki II
Voice : Tomizaki Shunshō
Shamisen : Tomizaki Shunshō

Yamaguchi Goro - Performance study 3 Shamisen : Yonekawa Toshiko
Koto : Yonekawa Toshiko II
Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō

Yonekawa Fumiko - Complete Works vol. 2 Voice : Yonekawa Fumiko I
Koto : Yonekawa Fumiko I
Shakuhachi : Nōtomi Judō II
Shamisen : Yonekawa Fumiko II