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Sake (Sasa no Tsuyu)

酒 (笹の露)

[Genre]Jiuta
[Estilo]Tegotomono
[Escuela]Ikuta Ryû - 生田
[También Conocido Como]Sake
[Compuesto]Yaezaki Kengyō - Koto
Kikuoka Kengyō - Shamisen

Historia (Tsuge Gen'ichi):

The title literally means 'Dew-drops on a Bamboo Leaf.' However, sasa in old Japanese was another name for sake, or liquor made from rice, and the title should actually be understood in the second sense. Therefore, this piece is often called 'Sake,' as the text is nothing but a song in praise of sake.

Sasa no tsuyu was originally composed as a jiuta by Kikuoka of Kyoto, a blind master of kiuta, around the beginning of the last century. Later Yaezaki (1766?-1848) of Kyoto, a renowned virtuoso of the koto, arranged it for koto and shamisen ensemble. This is a typical tegoto-mono piece of the Kyoto style, with extensive instrumental interludes, or tegoto, involving numerous responsorial patterns, and demands performance skill of a high order.

Poema (translated by Tsuge Gen'ichi)

The sage
Confucius said
The drinking of sake
Knows no bounds-
He must have been
A very good drinker.
The Lord Buddha
Admonished that
Drinking involves
Thirty-six evils-
He must have been
A very poor drinker.
Be that as it may,
Susanowo

The god of Izumo
Subjugated the eight-headed dragon
With the thick sake
Of eight-fold brewings.
He owed his victory
To the virtue of sake
Even the great rock (1)
Ran away humbly
Before the Emperor's
Staggering drunkenness.

Empress Jingu (2)
Brewed sake
Auguring the return of her son.
This sake: Drink deeply!
Sasa, sasa!
This exclamation
Has been handed down
To us, and so
Drink up! Sasa!
Drink up! Sasa!

Liu Ling (3) and Li Po (4)-
Without sake
They would have been
Ordinary men.
Yoshino blossoms and Tatsuta leaves-
Without sake
They would be
Ordinary places.
Yoi, yoi yoi no
Yoiya sa!

(1) Refers to an episode in the Kojiki ('Record of Ancient Things,' the oldest extant book in Japanese, completed in 712), Vol. 2. The Emperor Ojin, drunk on wine brewed by a Korean named Susukori, rejoiced by walking along and singing a song. As he walked, he struck a large rock in the middle of the path with his staff whereupon the rock ran away.
(2) Refers to another episode in the Kojiki, Vol. 2 When the Crown Prince Honda Wake no Mikoto went back to the capital, his mother Okinaga Hime no Mikoto (Empress Jingu) brewed machi-zake ('waiting wine') - wine made while awaiting the return of a loved one - to be drunk after his arrival.
(3) Liu Ling (221-300), one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. Liu was chiefly known as a great drinker.
(4) Li Po (689-762), one of the most famous of Chinese poets, often wrote of the pleasure of wine and the beauty of nature.
Saka wa
hakarinashi to
notamaishi
sijin wa
joogo niya
mashimashiken
sanjuuroku no
shitsu ari to
isame tamaishi

(ainote)

hotoke wa
geko niya
owasuran
nani wa tomoare
yakumo tasu
(ai)
izumo no kami wa
yashiori no
sake ni orochi wo
tairage tamoo
kore mina sake no
toku nare ya

(tegoto)

Ooishi saketsuru
kashikomi mo
mikoto no ei no
susume nari
(ai)
Hime no mikoto no
machi-zake wo
sasa yo sasa tono
kotonoha wo
tsutae tsutaete
imayo no hito mo
kikoshiose
sasa
kikoshimese
sasa

(tegoto)

Ryuu hakurin ya
ri taihaku
sake wo nomaneba
tada no hito
yoshino tasuta no
hana-momiji
(ai)
sake go nakereba
tada no toko
yoi yoi yoi no
yoiya sa

Sake (Sasa no Tsuyu) aparece en los siguientes álbumes

Álbum Artista
Play ButtonFujii Kunie Sokyoku Jiuta No Sekai 3 Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō

Ikuta Ryū Sōkyoku Tokusen 4 - Sasa no Tsuyu Shakuhachi : Araki Kodō V
Voz : Fujimoto Hakuin
Shamisen : Fujimoto Hakuin
Voz : Fukuda Tanehiko
Koto : Fukuda Tanehiko

Sankyoku Gassō Dai Zenshū vol. 22 (三曲合奏大全集22) Voz : Sasagawa Shizue
Shamisen : Sasagawa Shizue
Koto : Suzuki Kazuko
Shakuhachi : Matsumura Hōmei
Play ButtonSeiha Hogakkai Play Favorites 03 - Kikuoka Kengyo Shamisen : Inoue Michiko
Voz : Tanaka Gaman
Koto : Nakashima Yasuko
Shakuhachi : Yamamoto Hōzan

Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 31 Voz : Nakanoshima Kin'ichi
Koto : Nakanoshima Kin'ichi
Voz : Tomiyama Seikin I
Shamisen : Tomiyama Seikin I

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