Tag: Chuya Nakahara
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Sensation
This page weaves together Chuya Nakahara’s Japanese translation of Rimbaud’s Sensation, my own English interpretation based on Nakahara’s text, and fragments of the original French poem. By blending these voices, the song becomes a layered conversation across time and language—an homage to the resonance between two poetic souls.
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Deathbed
Nakahara Chuya’s poem Rinju (“At Deathbed”) is translated into English and reimagined through music. It depicts the quiet passage of a soul fading into the sky, a gentle elegy for what has been lost. The original poem, its translation, the translator’s notes, and the accompanying music and video together form a single, unified world.
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Moonlit Beach
Experience Nakahara Chuya’s Moonlit Shore in multiple forms—literal translation, interpretive rendering, musical adaptation, and a translator’s note reflecting on grief, memory, and poetic silence.
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Phantom
In Phantom by Chūya Nakahara, the Pierrot appears to me as a reflection of the poet himself. Striving desperately to communicate yet unable to be understood, it embodies a sense of loneliness and alienation, yet also carries a tender gaze. Through this figure, one can glimpse Nakahara’s inner world.
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Bones
I have translated the poem “Bones” by Japanese poet Nakahara Chuya into English. It can also be enjoyed as music. I hope that the poem conveys the author’s self-deprecating yet playful nuances.
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Arishi Hino Uta
Songs of Bygone Days is a poetry collection personally curated by Chūya Nakahara and published in April 1938, after his sudden death in October 1937. He completed the editing before passing and entrusted the manuscript to his friend Hideo Kobayashi.
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On the Lake
Presented under the “Echoes of Ink” series, this page offers a narrated rendition of Chūya Nakahara’s lyric poem Kojō (On the Lake), accompanied by an immersive soundscape. The original Japanese text is presented in full, line by line, followed by a reading enriched with ambient audio to evoke the poem’s tranquil and haunting atmosphere.
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Yagi no Uta
“Yagi no Uta” (Songs of the Goat), first published in 1934 (Shōwa 9), is the only poetry collection released during Chuya Nakahara’s lifetime. It compiles 44 poems written between 1924 (Taishō 13) and 1930 (Shōwa 5). These works often express the fatigue of life—the longing for love and the sorrow of its loss—through techniques drawn…
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The Poet is Tired
Nakahara Chūya’s poem “The Poet is Tired” expresses the loneliness and resignation of a poet facing cold indifference. Stripped of ornamentation, its raw emotion resonates deeply. This page invites you to feel that honest spirit through music and words.
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Urban Summer Night
A quiet cityscape flickers through Nakahara Chūya’s eyes—drunk with dusk, sorrow, and smoke. This translation invites you to wander his fractured elegance, where every line breathes both defiance and vulnerability.