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Haru no Shirabe

春の調

[Genre]Maybe Sokyoku - Jiuta
[School]Ikuta Ryû - 生田

Haru no Shirabe appears on the following albums

Album Artist

Koto - Music of the One-String Ichigenkin
Haru no Shirabe stems from the music of the 13-stringed Sho; it expresses, with detached serenity, the recurring freshness of spring.

The song of birds and flowers blooming
Betoken spring.

The nightingale in the plum tree-
I first heard its cry a day or two ago.

How beautiful the cherry blossoms
As the spring mist fades!

Though growing longer,
The days of spring never pall.

The dusk, too, is wondrous soft
With the hazy moon arising.

As I doze, who plays the koto
So near my pillow?

The waves coming and going on the Suma shore:
What joys the springtime brings!