Music Video

ミュージックビデオ

The Story

歌のものがたり

The priest Egyō (10th century) composed this at Kawara-no-in, once Japan's most extravagant villa garden, by then abandoned and buried under creeping weeds. Not a lament but a quiet discovery: seasons visit even the places people have forgotten — a sensibility that would later blossom into wabi-sabi. We recast it in a modern apartment on a silent day off, where autumn arrives as the most faithful guest of all. Brew some tea, open the window, and sunlight, wind and the song of insects come up into the room like three visitors. Loneliness, the song says, is not that no one comes; it is keeping the windows of an unvisited room shut. So open them, and try saying: welcome.

Lyrics

歌詞

Japanese

八重葎（拾遺集/恵慶法師・百人一首47番）Garu JP

Verse 1

チャイムが鳴らない休日の部屋

通知も来ない午後三時

カレンダーの予定は白いまま

それでも窓の外風が変わった

Pre-Chorus

誰も来ないと思ってたのに

一番律儀な客が来た

Chorus

八重葎しげれる宿のさびしきに

人こそ見えね秋は来にけり

誰も来なくても秋は来る

約束もなしに毎年来る

窓を開けて迎えよう

今年も来てくれた客人を

Verse 2

お茶を淹れてベランダに出る

日ざしと虫の声部屋に上がり込む

ひとりじゃないな今日のところは

客が三人も来てるんだから

Pre-Chorus 2

寂しさってのは客が来ないことじゃなく

客の来ない部屋を閉め切ることだ

Chorus 2

八重葎しげれる宿のさびしきに

人こそ見えね秋は来にけり

千年前荒れた屋敷で

同じことに気づいた人がいる

草だらけの庭にも分け隔てなく

秋は来ていた

Bridge

かつての豪邸八重葎

訪う人も絶えた庭

それでも秋は忘れずに

その年も門をくぐってきた

Drop

八重葎しげれる宿のさびしきに

人こそ見えね秋は来にけり

Final Chorus

誰も来なくても秋は来る

千年前の庭にもこの部屋にも

窓を開けて迎えよう

いらっしゃいって言ってみよう

Outro

人こそ見えね……

秋は来にけり

English

Yaemugura (Shui-shu / Priest Egyo, Hyakunin Isshu No. 47) Garu JP

The doorbell never rings — a day off at home

No notifications — three in the afternoon

The calendar stays blank and white

And yet, outside the window, the wind has changed

I thought nobody would come —

but the most faithful guest arrived

Around this ruined house, overgrown with vines,

no one comes to visit — and yet, autumn has come

Even if nobody comes, autumn will

Every year, without a promise, it comes

Let's open the window and welcome in

the honored guest who came again this year

I brew some tea and step out to the balcony

Sunlight and insect songs come up into the room

I'm not alone — not today, at least

Three guests are already here

Loneliness isn't that nobody comes —

it's keeping an unvisited room shut tight

Around this ruined house, overgrown with vines,

no one comes to visit — and yet, autumn has come

A thousand years ago, in a ruined mansion,

someone realized the very same thing

Into that garden gone to weeds, without distinction,

autumn had come

A once-great villa, buried in vines

A garden where visitors ceased to call

And still, autumn did not forget —

that year too, it came in through the gate

Around this ruined house, overgrown with vines,

no one comes to visit — and yet, autumn has come

Even if nobody comes, autumn will

To that thousand-year-old garden — and to this room

Let's open the window and welcome it in

and try saying: "Welcome, come on in"

No one comes to visit……

and yet, autumn has come