蝉丸

Semimaru

世阿彌 Zeami

SEMIMARU

The stage assistant places a representation of a hut at the waki-position. Semimaru enters, wearing the semimaru mask. He is flanked by two Palanquin Bearers who hold a canopy over him. Kiyotsura follows them.

ワキ次第

  「定めなき世の中々に。定めなき世の中々に。憂き事や頼みなるらん。

ワキ

    「是は延喜第四の御子。蝉丸の宮にておはします。實にや何事も報い有りける浮世かな。前世の戒行いみじくて。今皇子とは爲り給へども。襁襁の内よりなどやらん。兩眼盲ひましまして。蒼天に月日の光りなく。闇夜に燈暗うして。五更の雨も止む事なし。明かし暮らさせ給ふ所に。帝如何なる叡慮やらん。密に具足し奉り。逢坂山に捨て置き申し。御髪をおろし奉れとの。綸言出でて歸らねば。御痛はしさは限りなけれども。勅諚なれば力なく。

Kiyotsura

The world is so unsure, unknowable;
Who knows—our griefs may hold our greatest hopes.
This nobleman is the Prince Semimaru
Fourth child of the Emperor Daigo.

Kiyotsura and Attendants

Truly in this uncertain world
All that befalls us comes our way
As recompense for what we've done before.
In his previous existence
He observed intently the laws of Buddha
And in this life was born a prince,
Yet why was it—ever since he lay,
An infant wrapped in swaddling clothes
His eyes have both been blind: For him
The sun and moon in heaven have no light;
In the black of night his lamp is dark;
The rain before the dawn never ends.

Kiyotsura

His nights and days have been spent this way,
But now what plan has the Emperor conceived?
He ordered us to escort the Prince in secret,
To abandon him on Mount Ōsaka
And to shave his head in priestly tonsure.
The Emperor's words, once spoken
Are final—what immense pity I feel!
Yet, such being the command, I am powerless;

下歌

    「足弱車忍路を。雲井のよそに廻らして。

上歌

    「東雲の。空も名殘の都路を。空も名殘の都路を。今日出て初めて又いつか。歸らん事も片糸の。よるべなき身の行方。さなきだに世の中は。浮木の龜の年を經て。盲龜の闇路たどり行く。迷ひの雲も立ちのぼる。逢坂山に着きにけり。逢坂山に着きにけり。

Kiyotsura and Attendants

Like lame-wheeled carriages
We creep forth reluctantly
On the journey from the Capital;
How hard it is to say farewell
As dawn clouds streak the east!
Today lie first departs the Capital
When again to return? His chances are as fragile
As unraveled threads too thin to intertwine.
Friendless, his destination is unknown.
Even without an affliction
Good fortune is elusive in this world,
Like the floating log the turtle gropes for
Once a century: The path is in darkness
And he, a blind turtle, must follow it. [1]1
Now as the clouds of delusion rise
We have reached Mount Osaka
We have reached Mount Osaka.

Semimaru sits on a stool before the Chorus. Kiyotsura kneels at the shite-pillar. The Bearers exit through the slit door.

蝉丸詞

   「如何に清貫。

Semimaru

Kiyotsura!

ワキ詞

   「御前に候。

Kiyotsura

I am before you.

From his kneeling position, he bows deeply.

蝉丸

    「さて我をば此山に捨て置くべきか。

Semimaru

Are you to leave me on this mountain?

ワキ

    「さん候宣旨にて候ふ程に。是までは御供申して候へども。何くに捨て置き申すべきやらん。さるにても我君は。堯舜より此方。國を治め民を憐れむ御事なるに。かやうの叡廬は何と申したる御事やらん。かかる思ひもよらぬ事は候はじ。

Kiyotsura

Yes, your highness. So the Emperor has commanded, and I have brought you this far. But I wonder just where I should leave you.

Since the days of the ancient sage kings
Our Emperors have ruled the country wisely,
Looking after its people with compassion--
But what can his Majesty have had in mind?
Nothing could have caught me so unprepared.

蝉丸詞

   「あら愚の清貫が言ひ事やな。本より盲目の身と生るる事。前世の戒行拙き故なり。されば父帝も。山野に捨てさせ給ふ事。御情なきには似たれども。此世にて過去の業障を果し。後の世を助けんとの御謀。是こそ誠の親の慈悲よ。あら歎くまじの勅諚やな。

Semimaru

What a foolish thing to say, Kiyotsura. I was born blind because I was lax in my religious duties in a former life.

That is why the Emperor, my father,
Ordered you to leave me in the wilderness,
Heartless this would seem, but it's his plan
To purge in this world my burden from the past,
And spare me suffering in the world to come.
This is a father's true kindness.
You should not bewail his decree.

ワキ詞

   「宣旨にて候ふ程に。御髪をおろし奉り候。

Kiyotsura

Now I shall shave your head.
His Majesty has so commanded.

蝉丸詞

   「是は何と云ひたる事ぞ。

Semimaru

What does this act signify?

ワキ

    「是は御出家とめでたき御事にて渡らせ給ひ候。

Kiyotsura

It means you have become a priest,
A most joyous event.

Semimaru rises, The stage assistant removes his nobleman's outer robe and places a priest's hat on his head.

蝉丸

    「實にやかうくわん髻を切り。半だんに枕すと。唐のせいしが申しけるも。かやうの姿にて有りけるぞや。

Semimaru

Surely Seishi's poem described such a scene:

"I have cut my fragrant scented hair
My head is pillowed half on sandalwood," [2]2

ワキ

    「此御有樣にては。中々盜人の恐れも有るべければ。御衣を賜はつて簑と云ふものを參らせ上げ候。

Kiyotsura

Such splendid clothes will summon thieves, I fear.
Allow me to take your robe and give you instead
This cloak of straw they call a mino.

Semimaru mimes receiving the mino.

蝉丸

    「是は雨による田簑の島とよみ置きつる。蓑と云ふ物か。

Semimaru

Is this the mino mentioned in the lines.
"I went to Tamino Island when it rained"? [3]3

ワキ

    「又雨露の御爲めなれば。同じく笠を參らする。

Kiyotsura

And I give you this kasa rainhat
To protect you also from the rain and dew.

He takes a kasa from the stage assistant and hands it to Semimaru.

蝉丸

    「是は御侍御笠と申せとよみ置きつる。笠と云ふ物よなふ。

Semimaru

Then this must be the kasa of the poem
"Samurai—take a kasa for your lord." [4]4

Semimaru puts down the kasa.

ワキ詞

   「又此杖は御道しるべ。御手に持たせ給ふべし。

Kiyotsura

And this staff will guide you on your way.
Please take it in your hands.

He takes a staff from the stage assistant and hands it to Semimaru.

蝉丸

    「實に實に是も突くからに。千年の坂をも越えなんと。彼遍昭がよみし杖か。

Semimaru

Is this the staff about which Henjō wrote:
"Since my staff was fashioned by the gods
I can cross the mountain of a thousand years"? [5]5

Kiyotsura kneels at the shite-pillar.

ワキ

    「それは千年の坂行く杖。

Kiyotsura

His staff brought a thousand prosperous years, [6]6

蝉丸

    「ここは所も逢坂山の。

Semimaru

But here the place is Mount Ōsaka,

ワキ

    「關の戸ざしの藁屋の竹の。

Kiyotsura

A straw-thatched hut by the barrier;

蝉丸

    「杖柱とも頼みつる。

Semimaru

Bamboo pillars and staff, my sole support.

ワキ

    「父帝には。

Kiyotsura

By your father, the Emperor,

蝉丸

 「捨てられて。

Semimaru

Abandoned,

地

     「かかる憂き世に逢坂の。知るも知らぬも是見よや。延喜の皇子の。成り行く果てぞ悲しき。行人征馬の數々。上り下りの旅衣。袖をしをりて村雨の。振り捨て難き名殘かな。振り捨て難き名殘かな。さりとては。いつを限りに有明の。盡きぬ涙を押さえつつ。早歸るさに爲りぬれば。皇子は跡に唯獨り。御身に添ふ物のとては。琵琶を抱きて杖を持ち。臥し轉びてぞ泣き給ふ。臥し轉びてぞ泣き給ふ。

Chorus

I meet my unsure fate at Mount Ōsaka.
You who know me, you who know me not [7]7
Behold—this is how a prince, Daigo's son,
Has reached the last extremity of grief.

He lowers his head to give a sad expression to his mask.

Travelers and men on horses
Riding to and from the Capital,
Many people, dressed for their journeys,
Will drench their sleeves in sudden showers
How hard it is to abandon him,
To leave him all alone—
How hard it is to abandon him,
To tear ourselves away.

Kiyotsura bows to Semimaru.

But even farewells must have an end;
By the light of the daybreak moon
Stifling tears that have no end, they depart.

Weeping, Kiyotsura goes to the bridgeway.

Semimaru, the Prince, left behind alone,
Takes in his arms his lute, his one possession,
Clutches his staff and falls down weeping.

Semimaru picks up the staff and kasa, comes forward, and turns toward the departing Kiyotsura. Kiyotsura stops at the second pine and looks back at him, then exits. Semimaru retreats, kneels, drops his kasa and staff, and weeps. Hakuga no Sammi enters and stands at the naming-place.

Hakuga

I am Hakuga no Sammi. [8]8 I have learned that Prince Semimaru has been abandoned on Mount Ōsaka and it pains me so much to think of him at the mercy of the rain and dew that I have decided to build a straw hut where he may live.

He opens the door, of the hut, then goes to Semimaru at the shite-pillar.

The hut is ready at last, I shall inform him of this.

He bows to Semimaru.

Pardon me, sir; Hakuga is before you. If you stay here in this way, you will be soaked by the rain. I have built you a straw hut and I hope you will live in it. Please, come with me.

He takes Semimaru's hand and leads him inside the hut, then steps back and bows.

If ever you need anything, you have only to summon me, Hakuga no Sammi. I shall always be ready to serve you. I take my leave of you for now.

He closes the door of the hut, then exits. Sakagami enters wearing the zō mask. Her robe is folded back from her right shoulder indicating that she is deranged. She stops at the first pine.

シテサシ

  「是は延喜段四の御子。逆髪とは我事なり。我皇子とは生るれども。いつの因果の故やらん。心より心より狂亂して。邊土遠卿の狂人と爲つて。翠の髪は空さまに生ひ上つて。撫づれども下らず。如何にあれなる童部どもは何を笑ふぞ。何我髪の逆さまなるがをかしいとや。實に實に逆さまなる事はをかしいよな。さては我髪よりも。汝等が身にて我を笑ふこそ逆さまなれ。面白し面白し。是等は皆人間目前の境界なり。夫れ花の種は地に埋もつて千林の梢に上り。月の影は天にかかつて萬水の底に沈む。是等をば皆何れか順と見逆なりと謂はん。我は皇子なれども庶人に下り。髪は身上より生ひ上つて星霜を載く。是皆順逆の二つなり。面白や。柳の髪をも風は梳るに。

地

     「風にも解かれず。

Sakagami

I am the third child of the Emperor Daigo,
The one called Sakagami, Unruly Hair.
Though born a princess, some deed of evil
From my unknown past in former lives
Causes my mind at times to act deranged.
And in my madness I wander distant ways.
My blueblack hair grows skywards;
Though I stroke it, it will not lie flat.

She smooths down her hair

Those children over there-what are they laughing at?

She looks to the right as if watching passersby.

What? You find it funny that my hair stands on end? Yes,
I suppose hair that grows upside down is funny.
My hair is disordered, but much less than you—
Imagine, commoners laughing at me!

How extraordinary it is that so much before our eyes is upside down. Flower seeds buried in the ground rise up to grace the branches of a thousand trees. The moon hangs high in the heavens, but its light sinks to the bottom of countless waters.

She looks up and down.

I wonder which of all these should be said to go in the
proper direction and which is upside down?
I am a princess, yet I have fallen,
And mingle with the ruck of common men;

She proceeds to the stage while chanting.

My hair, rising upward from my body,
Turns white with the touch of stars and frost:
The natural order or upside down?
How amazing that both should be within me!

She enters the stage.

The wind combs even the willows' hair
But neither can the wind untangle,
Nor my hand separate this hair.

She takes hold of her hair and looks at it.

Shall I rip it from my head? Throw it away?
I lift my sleeved hands—what is this?
The hair-tearing dance? [9]9 How demeaning!

She begins to dance, in a deranged manner.

シテ

    「手にも分けられず。

地

     「かなぐり捨つるみての袂。

シテ

    「拔頭の舞かやあさましや。

地

     「花の都を立ち出でて。花の都を立ち出でて。憂き音に鳴くか鴨河や。末白河を打ち渡り。粟田口にも着きしかば。今は誰をか松坂や。關の此方と思ひしに。跡になるや音羽山の。名殘惜しの都や。松虫鈴虫きりぎりすの。鳴くや夕陰の山科の。里人も咎むなよ。狂女なれど心は。清瀧川と知るべし。 

シテ

    「逢坂の。關の清水に影見えて。

Chorus

As I set forth from the flowery Capital
From the flowery Capital,
At Kamo River what were those mournful cries? [10]10
The river ducks? Not knowing where I went
I crossed the river Shirakawa
And when I reached Awataguchi, I wondered,
"Whom shall I meet now at Matsuzaka?" [11]11
I thought I had yet to pass the barrier
But soon Mount Otowa fell behind me
How sad it was to leave the Capital!
Pine crickets, bell crickets, grasshoppers,
How they cried in the dusk at Yamashina!
I begged the villagers, "Don't scold me, too!"
I may be mad, but you should know
My heart is a pure rushing stream:
"When in the clear water
At Ōsaka Barrier
It sees its reflection
The tribute horse from Mochizuki
Will surely shy away." [12]12
Have my wanderings brought me to the same place?
In the running stream I see my reflection.
Though my own face, it horrifies me:
Hair like tangled briers crowns my head
Eyebrows blackly twist—yes, that is really
Sakagami's reflection in the water.
Water, they say, is a mirror,
But twilight ripples distort my face.

Sakagami sits at the stage assistant's position, indicating she has arrived at Mount Ōsaka. Semimaru, inside the hut,opens his fan and holds it in his left hand as if playing his lute.

地

     「今や引くらん望月の。駒の歩も近づくか。水も走井の影見れば。我ながらあさましや。髪はおどろを載き。黛も亂れ黒みて。實に逆髪の影うつる。水を鏡と夕波の。現なの我姿や。

蝉丸

    「第一第二の絃は索々として秋の風。松を拂つて竦韻落つ。第三第四の宮は。我蝉丸が調べも四つの。折柄なりける村雨かな。あら心凄の夜すがらやな。世の中はとにもかくにも有りぬべし。宮も藁屋も果てしければ。

Semimaru

The first string and the second wildly sound [13]13
The autumn wind brushes the pines and falls
With broken notes; the third string and the fourth
The fourth is myself, Semimaru,
And four are the strings of the lute I play
As sudden strings of rain drive down on me
How dreadful is this night!
"All things in life
In the end are alike;
Whether in a palace or a hovel
We cannot live forever." [14]14

While Semimaru is speaking Sakagami comes before the shite-pillar. Semimaru inclines his head toward her as she speaks.

Sakagami

How strange—I hear music from this straw-thatched hut,
The sounds of a biwa, elegantly plucked—
To think a hovel holds such melodies!
But why should the notes evoke this sharp nostalgia?
With steps silent, as the rain beating on the thatch
She stealthily approaches, stops and listens.

She silently comes to stage center. Semimaru folds his fan.

地

     「かかる憂き世に逢坂の。知るも知らぬも是見よや。延喜の皇子の。成り行く果てぞ悲しき。行人征馬の數々。上り下りの旅衣。袖をしをりて村雨の。振り捨て難き名殘かな。振り捨て難き名殘かな。さりとては。いつを限りに有明の。盡きぬ涙を押さえつつ。早歸るさに爲りぬれば。皇子は跡に唯獨り。御身に添ふ物のとては。琵琶を抱きて杖を持ち。臥し轉びてぞ泣き給ふ。臥し轉びてぞ泣き給ふ。

Chorus

I meet my unsure fate at Mount Ōsaka.
You who know me, you who know me not [7]7
Behold—this is how a prince, Daigo's son,
Has reached the last extremity of grief.

He lowers his head to give a sad expression to his mask.

Travelers and men on horses
Riding to and from the Capital,
Many people, dressed for their journeys,
Will drench their sleeves in sudden showers
How hard it is to abandon him,
To leave him all alone—
How hard it is to abandon him,
To tear ourselves away.

Kiyotsura bows to Semimaru.

But even farewells must have an end;
By the light of the daybreak moon
Stifling tears that have no end, they depart.

Weeping, Kiyotsura goes to the bridgeway.

Semimaru, the Prince, left behind alone,
Takes in his arms his lute, his one possession,
Clutches his staff and falls down weeping.

Semimaru picks up the staff and kasa, comes forward, and turns toward the departing Kiyotsura. Kiyotsura stops at the second pine and looks back at him, then exits. Semimaru retreats, kneels, drops his kasa and staff, and weeps. Hakuga no Sammi enters and stands at the naming-place.

Hakuga

I am Hakuga no Sammi. [8]8 I have learned that Prince Semimaru has been abandoned on Mount Ōsaka and it pains me so much to think of him at the mercy of the rain and dew that I have decided to build a straw hut where he may live.

He opens the door, of the hut, then goes to Semimaru at the shite-pillar.

The hut is ready at last, I shall inform him of this.

He bows to Semimaru.

Pardon me, sir; Hakuga is before you. If you stay here in this way, you will be soaked by the rain. I have built you a straw hut and I hope you will live in it. Please, come with me.

He takes Semimaru's hand and leads him inside the hut, then steps back and bows.

If ever you need anything, you have only to summon me, Hakuga no Sammi. I shall always be ready to serve you. I take my leave of you for now.

He closes the door of the hut, then exits. Sakagami enters wearing the zō mask. Her robe is folded back from her right shoulder indicating that she is deranged. She stops at the first pine.

蝉丸

    「誰そや此藁屋の外面に音するは。此程をりをりとぶらはれつる。博雅の三位にてましますか。

Semimaru

Who is there? Who's making that noise outside my hut?
Hakuga no Sammi, lately you've been coming
From time to time to visit me—is that you?

シテ詞

   「近づき聲をよくよく聞けば。弟の宮の聲なりけり。なふ逆髪こそ參りたれ。蝉丸は内にましますか。

Sakagami

As I approach and listen carefully—that's the voice of my brother, the Prince!
It's Sakagami! I'm here!
Semimaru, is that you inside?

蝉丸

    「何逆髪とは姉宮かと。驚き藁屋の戸を明くれば。

Semimaru

Can it be my sister, the Princess?
Amazed, he opens the door of his hut.

Taking his staff he rises and opens the door.

シテ

屬気〓淺ましき御有樣。

Sakagami

Oh—how wretched you look!

She comes up to Semimaru as he emerges from the hut.

蝉丸

    「互に手に手を 取りかはし。

Semimaru

They take each other hand in hand

They place their hands on each other's shoulders and kneel.

シテ

    「弟の宮か。

Sakagami

My royal brother,
is that indeed you?

蝉丸

    「姉宮かと。

Semimaru

My royal sister,
is that indeed you?

地

     「共に御名を木綿附の。鳥も音を鳴く逢坂の。せきあへぬ御涙。互に袖やしをるらん。

Chorus

They speak each other's names as in one voice.
Birds are also crying, here at Ōsaka,
Barrier of meeting—but no barrier
Holds back the tears that soak each other's sleeves.

Both weep. During the following passage Sakagami returns to the middle of the stage and kneels.

地クリ

   「夫れ旃檀は二葉より香ばしと云へり。ましてや一樹の宿りとして。風橘の香を留めて。花も連なる枝どかや。

シテサシ

  「遠くは淨藏淨眼早離速離。近くは又應神天皇の御子。

Chorus

They say that sandalwood reveals its fragrance
From the first two leaves [15]15mdash;but how much closer still
Are we who sheltered beneath a single tree! [16]16
The wind rising in the orange blossoms [17]17
Awakens memories we shall preserve
We who flowered once on linking branches!
The love between brothers is told abroad:
Jōzō and Jōgen, Sōri and Sokuri; [18]18
And nearer at hand, in Japan
The children of Emperor Ōjin,
The princes Naniwa and Uji, [19]19
Who yielded the throne, each to the other:
All these were brothers and sisters
Bound in love, like us, like linking branches.

地

     「難波の皇子菟道の皇子と。互に即位謙讓の御志。皆是れ連理の情とかや。

シテ

    「さりながらここは兄人の宿りとも。

Sakagami

But did I imagine my brother
Would ever live in such a hovel?

地

     「思はざりしに藁屋の内の。一曲なくはかくぞとも。いかで調べの四つの緒に。

Chorus

Had no music come from that straw-thatched hut
How should I have known? But I was drawn
By the music of those four strings,

シテ

    「引かれてここによるべの水の。

Sakagami

Drawn like the water offered to the gods

地

     「淺からざりし契りかな。

クセ

    「世は末世に及ぶとても。日月は地に落ちぬ。習ひとこそ思ひしに。我等如何なれば。皇子を出でてかくばかり。人臣にだに交はらで。雲井の空をも迷ひ來て。都鄙遠境の狂人。路頭山林の賤となって。邊土旅人の。憐れみを頼むばかりなり。さるにても昨日までは。玉樓金殿の。床を磨きて玉衣の。袖引きかへて今日は又。かかる所の臥所とて。竹の柱に竹の垣。軒もとばそもまばらなる。藁屋の床に藁の窓。敷く物とても藁筵。是ぞ古の。錦の蓐なるべし。

Chorus

From deep wells of love and far-reaching ties.
The world may have reached its final phase [2O]20
But the sun and moon have not dropped to the ground.
Things are still in their accustomed place, I thought,
But how can it be, then, that you and I
Should cast away our royalty and live like this,
Unable even to mingle with common men?
A mad woman, I have come wandering now
Far from the Capital girdled by clouds,
To these rustic scenes, a wretched beggar,
By the roads and forests, my only hope
The charity of rustics and travelers.
To think it was only yesterday you lived
In jeweled pavilions and golden halls;
You walked on polished floors and wore bright robes.
In less time than it takes to wave your sleeve,
Today a hovel is your sleeping-place.
Bamboo posts and bamboo fence, crudely fashioned
Eaves and door: straw your window, straw the roof,
And over your bed, the quilts are mats of straw:
Pretend they are your silken sheets of old.

蝉丸

    「たまたま事訪ふ物とては。

地

     「蜂を木傳ふ猿の聲。袖を濕ほす村雨の。音にたぐへて琵琶の音を。引き鳴らし引き鳴らし。我音をも鳴く涙の。雨だにも音せぬ。藁屋の軒のひまびまに。時々月は漏りながら。目に見る事の叶はねば。月にも疎く雨をだに。聞かぬ藁屋の起臥を。思ひやられて痛はしや。

Semimaru

My only visitors—how rarely they come—
Are monkeys on the peak, swinging in the trees;
Their doleful cries soak my sleeve with tears.
I tune my lute to the sound of the showers,
I play for solace, but tears obscure the sounds.
Even rain on the straw roof makes no noise.
Through breaks in the eaves moonlight seeps in.
But in my blindness, the moon and I are strangers.
In this hut I cannot even hear the rain—
How painful to contemplate life in this hut!

Both weep.

ロンギ、シテ

「是までなりやいつまでも。名殘は更に盡すまじ。暇申して蝉丸。

Sakagami

Now I must go; however long I stayed
The pain of parting never would diminish.
Farewell, Semimaru.

Both rise.

蝉丸

    「一樹の陰の宿りとて。それだに有るにまして實に。せうとの宮の御別れ。とまるを思ひやり給へ。

Semimaru

If sheltering under a single tree
Were our only tie, parting would still be sad;
How much sadder to let my sister go!
Imagine what it means to be alone!

Sakagami moves toward the shite-pillar.

シテ

    「實に痛はしや我ながら。行くは慰む方もあり。留るをさこそと夕雲の。立さやすらひて泣き居たり。

Sakagami

Truly I pity you; even the pain
Of wandering may provide distraction,
But remaining here—how lonely it will be!
Even as I speak the evening clouds have risen,
I rise and hesitate; I stand in tears.

She weeps.

蝉丸

    「鳴くや關路の夕烏。浮かれ心は烏羽玉の。

Semimaru

The evening crows call on the barrier road,
Their hearts unsettled

シテ

    「我黒髪の飽かで行く。

Sakagami

As my raven hair,
My longing unabated, I must go.

蝉丸

    「別路とめよ逢坂の。

Semimaru

Barrier of Meeting, don't let her leave!

シテ

    「關の杉村過ぎ行けば。

Sakagami

As I pass by the grove of cedars

She goes to the first pine.

蝉丸

    「人聲遠くなるままに。

Semimaru

Her voice grows distant. . .

シテ

    「藁屋の軒に。

Sakagami

By the eaves of the straw hut. . .

蝉丸

    「たたずみて。

Semimaru

I stand hesitant.

Chorus

"Farewell," she calls to him, and he responds,
"Please visit me as often as you can."

Sakagami goes to the third pine and turns back to look at Semimaru.

Her voice grows faint but still he listens,

Sakagami starts to exit. Semimaru takes a few steps forward, stops and listens. His blind eyes gaze in her direction.

She turns a final time to look at him.
Weeping, weeping they have parted,
Weeping, weeping they have parted.

Sakagami exits, weeping. Semimaru also weeps.

地

     「互にさらばよ。常には訪はせ給へと。幽に聲のする程。聞き送りかへり見おきて。泣く泣く別れおはします。泣く泣く別れおはします。
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