Re: "Toudai Mori"

From: "B. Ito" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Date: 2003-12-03 02:46 Eastern Standard Time
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" Louise Bremner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> B. Ito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> We think of the people working in the lighthouse,
> And of their heart of noble and gentle love.

I think this should be " their hearts."  
Later, you refer to "the lighthouse, with the noble and
warm heart," etc.  If you mean that the lighthouse has the
noble heart, then it should be "its heart."  

> The stormy rain and wind blows over the north sea,
> Where mountain-like rolling waves always repeat raging.
> Even on such nights the people working in the lighthouse,
> With the noble and warm heart, beam its light over the sea.

...rain and wind blow 


The North Sea is a proper name.  Probably, "the northern 
seas" or "the northern sea" would be better.  


There are repeated ascriptions of the tune of $BEuBf<i(B 
[Toudaimori] to $B%$%.%j%9(B $BL1MX(B , English Folksong--but
nowhere does it say exactly which English folksong.  
The same tune was also used for $BN9Gq!'(B
http://www.mahoroba.ne.jp/~gonbe007/hog/shouka/ryohaku.html

"Father Dear Father Come Home With Me Now" can be heard at
http://www.mindspring.com/~jogt/father.htm
The two melodies are kissing cousins, not identical twins. 
One wonders if Henry Clay Work got his tune by adapting an 
English folksong.  Perhaps the Japanese lyricist, Katsu 
Yoshio, had heard the temperance tune but couldn't quite 
put his finger on it; so he just recreated it as best he 
could and called it an "English folksong."  

I agree with you that it sounds more like a hymn than 
a folksong.  Of course, that doesn't prove anything, either.
The hymn writers took melodic material from many sources--
sometimes untouched, sometimes modified.  



Ross
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