- Narita composed this song for voice and piano around 1916.1 The lyricist was Japanese poet Kôkei Hayashi (1875-1947).2
- Text translation by music therapist Yumi Sato
Sources
- “Hamabe no Uta (Narita, Tamezō),” IMSLP, accessed November 16, 2021, https://imslp.org/wiki/Hamabe_no_Uta_(Narita%2C_Tamez%C5%8D).
- Kumiko Shimizu and Mutsumi Moteki, eds., Japanese Art Song Anthology, Volume 1 Medium – Low Voice (Fayetteville, AZ: Classical Vocal Reprints, 2014).
Cut IDs
10754 17746 24385