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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/1044064-Ue-o-Muite-Aruk-ll-13
Rated: 13+ · Book · Nature · #1439094
Look around. Let Nature nurture your Soul. I record images I sense and share them here.
#1044064 added February 2, 2023 at 9:10am
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Ue o Muite Arukō l🇯🇵l [13+]
I have embraced the bittersweet since an early age. The observations of the Great Japanese writers: Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694), Yosa no Buson (1716-1783), and Kobayashi Issa (1763-1826) informed me that Nature could be sweet, even as it was juxtaposed with the bitterness of my upbringing.

I was 11 when this song became #1 on the music charts. It was called "Sukiyaki" in America but I learned the real words, and although it is a beautiful uplifting song its roots are firmly planted in the bittersweet soils of reality.

Kyu Sakamoto (10 December 1941 – 12 August 1985)) joined those who died young and left a haunting memory when he and others were killed in a tragic airplane crash.

May we remember him and this beautiful gift he gave us.



Ue o muite arukō
Namida ga koborenai youni
Omoidasu haruno hi
Hitoribocchi no yoru...

I look up while I walk
So the tears won't fall
Remembering those spring days
But tonight I'm all alone...

Complete lyrics in Japanese and English

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