Matsukaze and Murasame (feat. HIROYUKI, NANA & Yuriko) [Hyakunin Isshu]

This 16th poem of the Hyakunin Isshu is reborn as a sweet, intoxicatingly sultry, conversational love song between three voices. It paints a vivid picture of Yukihira and the two sisters in Suma-their wildly unconventional, fiercely erotic days together, the agonizing pain of their separation, and the burning vows they made to reunite, all depicted through raw, unapologetically mature scenes.

It is a highly emotional, stylishly produced track where courtly elegance and raw eroticism intertwine, leaving a profound and lingering afterglow, brought to you by Twilight Master.

Chunagon Yukihira (818-893) was a prominent Heian aristocrat and poet, the elder brother of the legendary Ariwara no Narihira.

Officially, this waka was composed upon his departure for Inaba Province. However, folklore whispers that it was truly written for two sisters, Moshiho and Kofuji-whom he affectionately named Matsukaze (Pine Wind) and Murasame (Autumn Rain)-during his exile in Suma.
The poem's brilliance lies in the kakekotoba (pivot word) "matsu," meaning both "pine tree" and "to wait." It elegantly entrusts his sorrow of parting and a fierce promise to return to the natural imagery of the pines. It is a quintessential Heian love poem, flawlessly merging aristocratic sensuality with the transience of life.