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Fune no Yume

舟の夢

[Genre]Jiuta
[Style]Tegotomono
[School]Ikuta Ryû - 生田
[Also Known As]A Boat of Dreams
[Composed]Yaezaki Kengyō - Koto
Kikuoka Kengyō - Shamisen

Poem (translated by John Tedford)

Maeuta:

With passionate yearning, I guide my boat
though chance encounters bring new pain;
In the midst of pleasure,
why such sorrow?
Indeed, when I could be hiding
from view on sheltered shores,
and grow accustomed to the
world of love -
Yet, I drift across the waters
bound to my ship,
Oh, transient and floating world!
It would be best, the cuckoo cries,
to turn back, even now...

TEGOTO

Atouta:

But without direction,
I wander in the white waves,
which gather round
my bed at night,
till restless thoughts of love,
startle me from my dreams.
The wind is chill;
the helm my only pillow.

Fune no Yume appears on the following albums

Album Artist

Sō - Shamisen - Shakuhachi ni yoru Mei Senshū Shakuhachi : Aoki Reibo II
Voice : Matsuo Keiko
Shamisen : Matsuo Keiko
Koto : Mori Yūji

Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 32 Voice : Yonekawa Toshiko
Shamisen : Yonekawa Toshiko
Voice : Satō Chikaki
Koto : Satō Chikaki