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歌のものがたり

Minamoto no Tsunenobu (1016–1097) was a courtier, scholar and musician of the late Heian period. He composed this at a country villa on the theme 'autumn wind at a farmhouse' — one of the very few Hyakunin Isshu poems about neither love nor grief, only the sound of a season arriving. The word 'otozurete' (to visit) originally meant 'to make a sound': autumn comes as a sound. We set it in a modern city apartment: coming home to a room still holding the day's heat, opening the window for the first time all summer, and letting the insects' song and the cool air in. Nothing happens in this song. Summer ends and autumn begins — and that alone is worth celebrating.

Lyrics

歌詞

Japanese

夕されば（金葉集/大納言経信・百人一首71番）Garu JP

Verse 1

帰り道の改札を出たら

空がもう暗くなっていた

風が少し軽くなってて

なぜか急ぐのをやめていた

Pre-Chorus

部屋に入れば置き去りの熱気

ひと夏ぶりに窓を開けた

Chorus

夕されば門田の稲葉

おとづれて秋風ぞ吹く

虫の声も冷たさも連れて

窓辺から秋が訪れる

夏が終わるそれだけのこと

それだけで胸がほどける

Verse 2

都会の風は熱を吐くばかり

季節の名前を忘れてた

蝉の声がいつの間にか

鈴の音に替わっていた

Pre-Chorus 2

何もしない何も起きない

それが今夜の贅沢で

Chorus 2

夕されば門田の稲葉

おとづれて秋風ぞ吹く

灯りもつけない部屋の真ん中で

風の音だけ聴いている

おかえりを言う人はいないけど

風に向かってただいまを言う

Bridge

千年前都を離れて

葦の小屋で風を聴いた人

その風はまだ吹いている

同じ音で同じ冷たさで

Drop

夕されば門田の稲葉おとづれて

芦のまろやに秋風ぞ吹く

Final Chorus

夕されば門田の稲葉

おとづれて秋風ぞ吹く

目を閉じれば何もいらない

虫の声だけ聴いていたい

夏が終わって秋が始まる

それだけのことを祝おう

Outro

芦のまろやに……

秋風ぞ吹く

English

Out through the ticket gate on my way home

The sky had already gone dark

The wind felt a little lighter

And somehow I had stopped hurrying

Back in my room, the heat of summer left behind

For the first time all summer, I opened the window

When evening falls, the rice leaves at my gate

rustle, and the autumn wind blows through

Bringing the insects' voices and the cool air

autumn arrives through my window

Summer is ending — that's all it is

And that alone loosens something in my chest

The city wind only ever breathed out heat

I had forgotten the names of the seasons

The cicadas' cries, at some point

had turned into the ring of bell crickets

Doing nothing, nothing happening

That is tonight's small luxury

When evening falls, the rice leaves at my gate

rustle, and the autumn wind blows through

In the middle of my room, lights still off

I'm listening only to the sound of the wind

There's no one here to say "welcome home"

so I say "I'm home" to the wind

A thousand years ago, far from the capital

someone listened to the wind in a hut of reeds

That wind is still blowing

with the same sound, the same coolness

When evening falls, the rice leaves at my gate rustle

and through the reed hut blows the autumn wind

When evening falls, the rice leaves at my gate

rustle, and the autumn wind blows through

With my eyes closed, I need nothing else

I just want to listen to the insects sing

Summer ends, and autumn begins

Let's celebrate just that

Through the reed hut...

blows the autumn wind

Yu Sareba (Kin'yo Wakashu / Hyakunin Isshu No.71) Garu JP

Yū Sareba

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