Tokihazure Kono Shinmotsu No Sakai Donsu Hiyokujima Irohauta No Kabuto

Inspired by Kurozosu and Nakamura Akei, "Iroha Uta Gishin Kabuto" (1764), also known as "Oguri Hangan's Carriage"

This Gift, Out of Time: Sakai Junko's Hiyokujima (Striped Stripes) and Iroha Uta no Owari

Excerpts from the Actual Script

The garden is covered in deep snow.
Even the mighty bamboo is weighed down by the snow.
The bamboo is weak and drooping.
More than forty people are filled with the lord's bitterness and longing.
The blind man's floating udongara blossoms, even in their regret, have bloomed.

(Enemy's lines)
"This gift is out of time.
What is this Korea?"
Junko Sakai's double-winged stripes.
One-sided fabric.
Is this the item you are presenting to your lord?
He pushes it back, telling me to rearrange it.

"White rain before the sun shines.
It's like a wheel turning."
"Even if you try to suppress your resentment.
Your anger will be revealed on your face and your veins will become bloodshot."
"The color is crimson, and the winter flower is a winter red plum."

"I'll take care of you.
I'll rent my house to those who can't take care of me.
No rent.
Funeral ceremony included.
The abacus is made in 42 days.
If the digits are off, they mutter, "My house."
They stand and dance."
This is Chukichi.
My doctor will listen and send it.
You'll pay for the medicine."
In the pine tree I gaze up at.
They've grown accustomed to it and built their nest every year.
Bees absorb water from flowers.
They may return or leave.
"Even the moon is half-lit. The wind blows out the lights.
I wonder if the insects know what to do. Their lovestruck faces appear."
"For a while in the shade of the trees.
The plovers on the shore come and beckon.
I invite you, but it is only when you approach that the rooster crows with a sense of determination."

(Enemy's lines)
"This gift is out of time.
What is this Korea?
Junko Sakai's double-winged striped kimono.
One-sided fabric. Is this the item to be presented to you?
I push it back, saying to change it."

"My various flights.
Ah, I will never forget my nest, lined up at the gate."
"Scattered in the storm.
The sound of wings flying high.
It seems they have found the nest and are flying in. "

"How could a child of such noble birth and talent have turned out like this?
I wonder if I was born with such poor fortune, my eyes water with tears."
Okare's meeting with the Hayase River.
At the end, the Yodo River at dawn.
All things are difficult. If one leaves first.

It is snowing deeply in the garden.
Even such a strong bamboo is weighed down by the weight of the snow.
The bamboo is weak and drooping.

"At the moment of joy. The bamboo leaves are softened by Japanese poetry.
It is a joyous reign that will last for eight thousand generations."