Originally Posted By: Robertkc
Hiroshik,

Lovely music!
I agree that you are taking the use of Sinsy to a new level and the production is up to your usual high standard.
It would be nice to see a translation of the poetry ( I`m a bamboo fan).

Robert

Robert,

Thank you for your kind comment. I am glad you like the "Ta-Ke" song.

As for the English translation, I have found the web page that includes it (for the original poet, of course).

http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/12/bamboo-two-poems-by-hagiwara-sakutaro/

The following is the excerpt from it.

In the shining earth the bamboo grows,
the blue-green bamboo grows,
underground the roots of bamboo grow,
roots that gradually taper off
with fine hairs sprouting from their tips,
hazy fine hairs faintly growing,
faintly trembling.

In the adversarial earth the bamboo grows,
aboveground the sharp bamboo grows,
perfectly straight bamboo grows,
with its rigid joints going rin, rin,
at the base of the blue sky bamboo grows,
bamboo, bamboo, bamboo grows.

Hiroshi