Haruka na machi no kanata kimi ni mo mieteru ka na Nando mo yonda moji ni "arigatou" to kakitashita Kimi ga kureta tegami o mada suterarenai mama Kokoro wa hora ima koboreta hikari ni te o nobasu yo Tatoe hitotoki dake de mo kirameku koto ga dekitara Negai wa omoi wa hateshinai sora o yume mite shimau kara Kanashimi no yoru o koete bokura wa arukitsuzukeru Ima wa mou kikoenai sono koe ni boku wa mata unazuite Hitori ja nai to shitte kono te wa tsuyoku nareta Kenage na sono hikari ni bokura wa yume o takushita Wazuka na kibou no subete o kagayaki ni kaetakute Maru de bokura no you da to kimi wa yasashiku waratta Manten no yozora kara hagureta houkiboshi o ok, am I just tired or was that sentence really confusing.?ĪNYWAY, I will now break the silence at last with a song requested by a friend and not-really-colleague-but-close of mine. *clonks head on desk repeatedly* By now all the people who made requests probably don't need translations of the lyrics they asked me for anymore. It's been like two months since I translated a song. That's right! Sakura is the entrance theme for the first real boss, Piston Honda, on the original Punch Out on NES! Listen closely.TaijiprojectI suck. Now imagine you're this little white dude with bright green boxing gloves about to face the Minor Circuit champion straight out of Tokyo so you can win your first belt. like something you'd hear out of a 1980's NES video game. Now as you listen to Sakura on koto above, imagine hearing it as a faster version, with a more MIDI synthesizer type of sound. The lyrics are simple and descriptive with tons of imagery that evoke all of the senses. This song actually has one original verse and a second verse added in 1941 by the Japanese Ministry of Education. This folk song was just your typical urban melody until the Tokyo Academy of Music used it as a beginner's song in their 1888 Collection of Japanese Koto Music for koto students. Sakura was written during the Edo period of Japan, roughly around 1600 to 1850 when the Tokugawa shogunate ruled the land. Just for the sake of saying it, the Japanese also have a stringed instrument more like an acoustic guitar called the shamisen. The koto is a classical Japanese stringed instrument akin to a lap steel guitar. They are incredibly beautiful and it's no surprise that a culture based on the calm and collected psychologies of Shinto and Zen would notice, write a song about it, and continue to honor that song for centuries on a traditional instrument such as the Koto. For the uninitiated, cherry blossoms are the gorgeous leaves of the Japanese tree in bloom. Sakura the song is a celebration of the beauty of what the Japanese word means in English, which is Cherry Blossoms.
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