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The Story

歌のものがたり

Of the priest Kisen (9th century), one of the Six Poetic Immortals, only this single poem certainly survives. The name of his mountain, Uji, puns on 'woeful' — so the world decided he was a hermit fleeing sorrow, and he simply shrugged: this is just how I live. We recast it as a jump-blues tune about a modern man who moved to the countryside. His city friends laugh that he 'ran away'; he brews coffee on a commute-free morning, counts sunsets instead of salary, and answers every rumor with a weather report. The finale flips a cold shoulder into an invitation: if you're coming to visit, come anytime — the weather here is fine again today.

Lyrics

歌詞

Japanese

わが庵は（古今集/喜撰法師・百人一首8番）Garu JP

Verse 1

駅から遠い町に越した

通勤のない朝を淹れる

コンビニまでは自転車で十五分

不便って言葉が似合う楽園

Pre-Chorus

都会の友達が言ってるらしい

「あいつは逃げた」って笑ってるらしい

Chorus

わが庵は都のたつみしかぞ住む

世をうぢ山と人はいふなり

逃げたんじゃなくて選んだんだよ

まあこんな感じでやってるんだよ

噂の続きはご自由にどうぞ

こっちは今日もいい天気

Verse 2

リモート会議の画面の隅に

畑の緑が映り込んでる

収入は少し減ったけれど

夕焼けの取れ高は倍になった

Pre-Chorus 2

たまに寂しくないかと聞かれる

寂しさよりも静けさが勝つ

Chorus 2

わが庵は都のたつみしかぞ住む

世をうぢ山と人はいふなり

千年前の宇治の山にも

同じ噂をされた人がいる

「世を捨てたんだ」と言われて笑って

「しかぞ住む」って歌にした

Bridge

世を憂う山と読んで宇治山

うまいこと言うね座布団一枚

でも本人は案外元気で

茶でも飲んでけと笑ってる

Drop

わが庵は都のたつみしかぞ住む

世をうぢ山と人はいふなり

Final Chorus

逃げたんじゃなくて選んだんだよ

まあこんな感じでやってるんだよ

遊びに来るならいつでもどうぞ

こっちは今日もいい天気

Outro

世をうぢ山と……

人はいふなり

English

Waga Io wa (Kokinshu / Priest Kisen, Hyakunin Isshu No. 8) Garu JP

I moved to a town far from the station

Brewing a morning with no commute

Fifteen minutes by bike to the convenience store

A paradise that wears the word "inconvenient" well

I hear my city friends are saying —

laughing, "that guy ran away"

My hut stands southeast of the capital — and thus I live

Yet people call it Uji, the Hill of Woe, they say

I didn't run away — I chose this

This is just how I'm living, you know

Feel free to continue the rumors

The weather here is fine again today

In the corner of my video-call screen

the green of the fields comes peeking in

My income shrank a little, sure —

but my sunset yield has doubled

Sometimes they ask, "don't you get lonely?"

The quiet outweighs the loneliness

My hut stands southeast of the capital — and thus I live

Yet people call it Uji, the Hill of Woe, they say

A thousand years ago, on this same hill of Uji,

lived a man they gossiped about the same way

"He has renounced the world," they said — he smiled

and made a poem: "and thus I live"

"The Hill of Woe" — that's what they read into Uji

Nicely punned, I'll give you that

But the man himself was doing just fine —

"come in for some tea," he laughed

My hut stands southeast of the capital — and thus I live

Yet people call it Uji, the Hill of Woe, they say

I didn't run away — I chose this

This is just how I'm living, you know

If you're coming to visit, come anytime

The weather here is fine again today

Uji, the Hill of Woe……

or so the people say