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Written by 栄屯 on 2025-01-26 at 14:49

https://eidon.bandcamp.com/track/okuyama-ni

Hello! With this piece, I return to my project on the Hyakunin Isshu, the famous collection of 100 Japanese poems, each written by a different author. What inspired me this time was poem number 5. Here it is, in Ad Blankestijn's translation (https://adblankestijn.blogspot.com/2016/01/hyakunin-isshu-one-hundred-poets-one_22.html):

When I hear the voice

of a crying stag

stepping through red leaves

deep in the mountains:

then I feel the desolation of autumn.

To my surprise, on archive.org I found a reproduction of an eighteenth-century woodblock which, I am sure, refers directly to the image expressed by the Japanese poet in the ninth century. An image that after 12 centuries continues to inspire artistic action!

The piece is for solo piano, in three parts. The compositional style, I would say, is neo-classical. As I said, it is part of the ongoing album ‘Ogura Hyakunin Isshu’ (https://eidon.bandcamp.com/album/ogura-hyakunin-isshu).

To all of you, many thanks for your interest in my work.

Eidon.

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