Music Video

ミュージックビデオ

The Story

歌のものがたり

Emperor Yōzei was forced from the throne at seventeen and lived sixty more years devoted to poetry. This was his proposal poem to Princess Suishi — and it succeeded, making it one of the very few love poems in the Hyakunin Isshu with a happy ending. Mount Tsukuba, with its gentle twin peaks, was an ancient meeting place where men and women exchanged songs of courtship. We recast it as a male-female duet: two voices describing the same small beginnings — a morning greeting, mismatched footsteps on the way home — merging into one in the chorus, just as two streams become one river. 'The name of this pool is you' becomes, by the final chorus, 'the name of this pool is the two of us.'

Lyrics

歌詞

Japanese

筑波嶺の（後撰集/陽成院・百人一首13番）Garu JP

Verse 1]（男）

はじまりはきっと些細なこと

「おはよう」ひとつで晴れる朝

それだけのことだったのに

気づけば今日も君を探してる

Verse 2]（女）

はじまりはきっと偶然のこと

帰り道ふぞろいの歩幅

それだけのことだったのに

となりの横顔見上げてる

Pre-Chorus]（掛け合い）

一滴ずつ落ちてくる

音もなく積もってく

この想いに名前をつけるなら

Chorus]（デュエット）

筑波嶺の峰より落つるみなの川

恋ぞつもりて淵となりぬる

ひとしずくの「好き」が積もって

もう戻れない深さになった

この淵の名前は君だ

Verse 3

たわいない話の帰り道

まだ帰りたくないって思った

何気ない日々のひとつずつが

水かさを増やしていく

Pre-Chorus 2

浅い川なら渡れたのに

もう膝まで胸まで

Chorus 2]（デュエット）

筑波嶺の峰より落つるみなの川

恋ぞつもりて淵となりぬる

流れの速さじゃなくて

深さで測るものがあるんだ

この淵の底まで君と行く

Bridge

千年前玉座を追われた人も

この想いだけは手放さなかった

沈むことを恋と呼ぶなら

喜んで沈もう

Drop

筑波嶺の峰より落つるみなの川

恋ぞつもりて淵となりぬる

Final Chorus

筑波嶺の峰より落つるみなの川

恋ぞつもりて淵となりぬる

ひとしずくの日々が積もって

ふたりの淵は深く静かだ

千年経っても涸れないように

この淵の名前は「ふたり」だ

Outro

恋ぞつもりて……

淵となりぬる

English

It began, I'm sure, with something small

A single "good morning" brightening the day

That was all it was, and yet

Before I know it, I'm looking for you again today

It began, I'm sure, by pure chance

Walking home, our steps out of sync

That was all it was, and yet

I find myself looking up at your face beside me

Drop by drop, it keeps falling

Without a sound, it keeps piling up

If I were to give this feeling a name

From the peaks of Mount Tsukuba falls the Mina River

my love has gathered, and become a deep pool

Each single drop of "I like you" piled up

until it became a depth I can't return from

The name of this pool is you

Walking home, chatting about nothing

I thought: I don't want to go home yet

Each ordinary day, one by one

keeps raising the water higher

If it were a shallow stream, I could have crossed

But now it's up to my knees, my chest

From the peaks of Mount Tsukuba falls the Mina River

my love has gathered, and become a deep pool

It's not about how fast it flows

Some things are measured by depth alone

To the bottom of this pool, I'll go with you

A thousand years ago, a man driven from his throne

never let go of this one feeling

If sinking is what they call love

then gladly, let us sink

From the peaks of Mount Tsukuba falls the Mina River

my love has gathered, and become a deep pool

From the peaks of Mount Tsukuba falls the Mina River

my love has gathered, and become a deep pool

Each single drop of our days piled up

and our pool is deep and still

May it never run dry, even in a thousand years

The name of this pool is "the two of us"

My love has gathered...

and become a deep pool

Tsukubane no (Gosen Wakashu / Hyakunin Isshu No.13) Garu JP