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Yoyo no Hoshi

夜々の星

This is a piece of genre Jiuta in the style of Tegotomono from the Ikuta Ryû - 生田 School. Also Known As : Evening Stars. This piece was composed for Koto by the person Mitsuzaki Kengyo. This piece was composed for Shamisen by the person Mitsuzaki Kengyo.

Poem (translated by John Tedford)

Maeuta:

So precious is my love,
like a comb box inlaid with jewels,
that twice or thrice
I have taken up my pen
to tell him of my desire.
And yet like ama [diver]
sent to dive and reap
the grasses at the bottom of the sea,
I suffer from what I see
yet cannot touch.
This very writing brush
on which I must rely
fills me with frustration.
At times, I wish my body
were like the dew
which quickly fades
from the thatched eaves.
Even the light of the stars...

TEGOTO

Atouta:

...grows dim
and darkness deepens.
How many nights
must I endure this lonely passion,
awaiting the dawn?
Gazing at clouded skies
I am truly at a loss.
The teardrops on my sleeve
overflow
and in the little sea of my inkstone
sink like jewels.

Yoyo no Hoshi appears on the following albums

	Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
	Abe Keiko Record Set - 09		Kobayashi Tamae	Abe Keiko
	Fascination of the Shakuhachi - 3	Yamamoto Hozan	Miura Yoko	Fujii Kunie
A te-goto piece composed by MITSUZAKI kengyo with lyrics written by MINAGAWA Shien. The sangen is in rhe san-sagari tuning and the koto is in hira-chosi. The lyricist was a scholar of Chinese literature in Kyoto who had his own school by the name of Koudou-kan. He was also good at painting and music, and often haunted Gion, the "merrymaking" district of the city. MITSUZAKI kengyo is known as the composer of GODAN GINUTA, AKIKAZE NO KYOKU and other pieces which utilize only the koto and exclude the sangen, establishing the basis for the revival movement in the Bakumatsu Era. The lyrics desctibe undying love but are more subtle and respectable when compared with ha-uta (light popular song) such as KUROKAMI or YUKI, thus demonstrating knowledge and ability of Shien, an aristocratic scholar.
	Ikuta Ryu Sokyoku Senshu Volume 07
	Kinko Ryu Shakuhachi Sankyoku Meikyoku Sen - Dai Ichi Shu - Vol 2	Yamaguchi Goro
	Seiha Hogakkai Play Favorites 04 - Mitsuzaki Kengyo
	Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 37			Abe Keiko

The International Shakuhachi Society - 2013