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Matsukaze (Yamada Ryū)

松風

[Genre]Sokyoku
[Style]Uta mono
[School]Yamada Ryū - 山田
[Composed]Koide Ichijûrô - Shakuhachi
Nakanōshima Shōsei I - Koto

History (Tsuge Gen'ichi):

In the late Edo period, a princess from the Date family (of Uwajima, Shikoku) was married to a titled man of the Matsudaira family (of Shimabara, Kyushu). Upon the unexpected early death of her husband, she, being an accomplished koto player, received a fine koto as a gift to console her in her deep sorrow. The koto bore the name Matsukaze ('Wind in the Pines'). The young widow spent the rest of her life playing the koto and writing waka poetry.

Poem (translated by Tsuge Gen'ichi)

The shadow
Of the judas tree in the moon
Lengthens.
Wind blows
Along a sandy path
Which is so polished
In the bright moonlight,
It seems like day.
The spreading vista
Has neither cherry blossoms
Nor fall foliage.

Autumn grows old
At the thatched-roof hut by the bay.
The fishergirl
Is unable to sleep.
Aged by the saltwater,
Her garments chill her.
And the sound of the fulling-block
Is so sorrowful!

Like the sedge mat of Tofu Village,
You took up most of the room in bed.
I was content with the rest.
Recalling the happy times gone by
When we were so close
To one another,
I feel even more
Wretched.
My sleeves drenched
With wave upon wave of tears.
Pulling his sleeves
As he was leaving,
I wished 'If only the
Autumn nights were longer.'
Tears of regret at parting
Never cease.
Names recalling the sea
In speaking of the koto.
The wind blowing
Through the pines on the beach.

Sound of nature -
And the wild geese
Above the clouds
Join in the music.
Descending.
They add their voices.
The sound of the waves
Purifies my heart
'Music of the Autumn Winds'
Must have resembled this.

How delightful!
My splendid koto
Accompanied by the sound of
The 'Wind in the Pines'
Should have been played
To prove a thousand years
Thy life may last,
As long as its strings,
Never ending!
Mount Mikasa
Would enjoy thy love
Even eight million years.
Hisakata no
tsuki no katsura no
kage takaku
kaze fukiokuri
masagoji wo
migakinashitaru
hikari wo ba
hiru ka to bakari
miwataseba
hana mo momiji mo
nakarikeri
(ai)
Ura no tomaya ni
aki fukete
uchi mo nerarezu
amabito wa
shionare-goromo
sode sabumi
kinuta no oto mo
urami nari

(ainote--kinuta)

Tofu no sugagomo
mifu ni neshi
mukashi shinobeba
warizume no
warinaki naka mo
makanakani
nani urazuri no
uramigoto
sode wa namida no
namigaeshi
kaeru tamoto wo
hikiren ni
aki no yo nagashi
nagakare to
nagori wa tsukinu
tsukushi-goto
umi to yobu na ni
yukari aru
isobe no matsu wo
fuku kaze mo
(ai)
Onozukara naru
shirabe niwa
kumoi no kari mo
kotoji shite
otsura manima ni
koe soete
kokoro wo sumasu
nami no oto
shuufuuraku ya
kore naran

(gaku--ainote)

Omoshiroya
matsukaze no
shirabe soetaru
tama-goto wa
chiyo no tameshi ni
hiku ito no
nagaki yo kakete
tsukisejito
yaoyorozuyo mo
mikasayama
kimi ga megumi ya
aoguran

Matsukaze (Yamada Ryū) appears on the following albums

Album Artist

Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 54 Koto : Nakanoshima Kin'ichi
Shakuhachi : Nōtomi Haruhiko
Voice : Nakanoshima Keiko
Shakuhachi : Nōtomi Judō II

Sōkyoku: Yamada-ryū - Meikyoku no Shirabe (vol. 4) Koto : Andō Namii
Shakuhachi : Nōtomi Judō I
Shamisen : Yamase Shōin II
Koto : Itō Shōchō I
Voice : Fukuchi Masue

Yamada - 03 Voice : Uehara Masaki II
Koto : Uehara Masaki II
Shamisen : Torii Tonami V

Yamada Ryū Sōkyoku Tokusen 2 - Okayasu Ginuta (山田流箏曲特選 二ー岡康砧) Voice : Fujii Chiyoga II
Koto : Fujii Chiyoga II
Voice : Nakanoshima Keiko
Koto : Nakanoshima Keiko
Voice : Yamase Shōin III
Shamisen : Yamase Shōin III

Yamada-Ryū Sōkyoku Tokusen Koto : Manabe Shizusei
Shamisen : Yamase Shōin III
Voice : Satō Toshise
Voice : Yamase Shōin II
Koto : Yamase Shōin II