Commentary on Shirabyoshi works

Water Monkey Song)

 

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It is said to be a representative piece of Shirabyoshi.

Water monkey songs are sung one after another about the superiority of water from countries far away from Japan, praising the superior power of water.

First, Hakurochi Pond in Nishi Tenjiku. Tenjiku at that time was further west than Nalanda Monastery (northeast of Bodhgaya) where Xuanzang went to get scriptures. It is a pond at the end of the world, and I am thinking about a distant land.

Next is Kunmingchi, the capital of Yunnan Province. This feels like the end of China.

Yanlingze is located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, east of China, the closest China to Japan. This is the pond where Gonko (39 BC-41 AD) was fishing every day, saying that even if he was invited by the bureaucrats of the central government, he did not want to put himself in a power struggle.

And Yamada's Kakehi water. Yamada Village in Yosano District, Kyoto Prefecture. It is now called Yosano Town. According to Suininki, the king of Niwa Province before the Ritsuryo system had five sisters. Under the power of Izumo, they were offered as hostages to Emperor Suinin (BC29-AD70) as mistresses. However, the fifth younger sister, Takenohime, was sent back to her country because she was not good looking. Embarrassed by this, he commits suicide by drowning in water on his way back to his country. According to legend, she became the goddess of water by dying in the water for the first time. Takenohime's name comes from the place name, but she is also called Kaguyahime. At night, she must have seen the moon reflected in the water, and she would have stepped into the water toward the light of the moon. Shizuka, who left her name as a shirabyoshi, was from Niwa Province and was good at this song and dance.

There are many legends about Jofuku in this land. It is said that 600 years after the Qin Dynasty, Niwa Province (now the Tango Peninsula) was the place where many technologies, such as rice cultivation, agriculture, processing of iron products, weaving, sake brewing, and medical pharmacy, crossed the sea. I'm here.

And finally, Mishima Irie. North Settsu Mishima area, Osaka Prefecture. The Katsura, Uji, and Kizu rivers meet at the Yamazaki isthmus to form the Yodo river. The river that flows through the capital, the river that makes it one, will never run out of water, singing the prosperity of Kyoto, the capital of the Heian period.

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The best water is Hakurochi of Saitenjiku.

It is crystal clear in shimushokoyu.

The color of the water of Kunming Pond

The sage's fishing drips from the water of the Genryorai river.

The water that leaks in the shadow of the moon is from Yamada's Kakehi

The ice water of Mishima Cove closes the lower leaves of the reeds

The young water in the sky where spring rises will never run out

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The first thing I can't forget about the excellent water is Tenjiku's Hakurochi Pond from the far west. It stands pure and quiet.

It is said that the color of the water in Kunming Pond will remain clear forever.

A sage named Genko casts his fishing line at Genryorai, where the river water is excellent.

It is said that what you can see through the moonlight is Yamada's kakehi.

It is the ice water of Mishima Cove that blocks the lower leaves of the reeds. When spring comes, the young water under the sky never runs out.

Sairenkyoku

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"Sairenkyoku" lyrics by Hsu Lanxueh

Made by Heo Nanseolong (1563-1589). A woman who left a revolutionary poem in an era when there was a trend of disdain for women in a Confucian moral society. Neither his family nor his family understood him, and he was abused by his mother-in-law, and died young at the age of 27. Her work was appreciated for the first time due to the global idea of gender equality after the Korean War. "It's embarrassing that people from afar could see when I threw a lotus seed at the person I love." I sing a unique worldview that has never existed before.

​The first is a melody in the form of fixed poetry called Sijo, which was created by Lee Gyujong. Next, for Japan, Makiko Sakurai made it with a modern melody at the end of the century.

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● "Sairenkyoku"

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Lyrics in the form of sijo

Choo Jang Lake Jaekyoku Ryu

Lotus flower deep place connecting orchid boat

Bon Ran Kyossu To Liang Cha

A person who knows half a day

 

Imayo format lyrics

At the beginning of autumn, Afumi is jasper and purely shining lotus.

People who think that if they connect a tree orchid boat, they keep a distance from the water

Throwing lotus seeds and letting people from afar know about it, spending half a day in shame

Hogetsu

 

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Written by Cheng Rinman

Written by Teisenban (1689-1702), the son of Tei Junsoku, a representative Ryukyuan poet of Chinese poetry. Although he had a talent reminiscent of Li Bai and Li He, he died young at the age of 14. "Blow Moon" is a work when I was 12 years old. "The pure moonlight cleanses the world of dirt. What should I sing about this scene? I want to go to the Moon Palace and ask the celestial maiden." song. I would like to dedicate this to the future of a 16-year-old boy who recently lost his right eye to a police baton in Okinawa City.

The first is a melody whose pronunciation was restored from a Chinese pronunciation dictionary of the Qing Dynasty by the mid-Edo period scholar Fumio (1700-1763). Next is the melody in the form of classical Ryukyuan songs. Both were made by Makiko Sakurai.

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● “Hogetsu”

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Qing Dynasty Chinese Lyrics by "Magic Mirror"

Mitsuru Chuniwa White Rin Ji Young Tain Mowan Shuyui Bee Lim Lim

Wanri Kiyomitsu Absolute Dust Uwan Lii Twin Kwan Tsuetem Jim

After the 3rd course of the crossing

Midnight greedy cold people Yes, Shim Yo Won Kwan An Jim

 

Lyrics in the form of Ryukyuan songs

Moonlight descending on the garden

overflowing with sleeping trees

Wash this world clean

Wandering in search of verses

I can't remember the people who live on the moon