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Akatombo
Sign in to savethumb|upright|Rofū Miki (1948) (also transliterated as Akatombo, Aka Tombo, Aka Tonbo, or Aka Tomba) is a famous Japanese children's song (dōyō) composed by Kōsaku Yamada in 1927, with lyrics from a 1921 poem by Rofū Miki. It is a nostalgic depiction of a Japanese red dragonfly seen at sunset by an infant being carried on an older sister's shoulder.
Wikidata facts
- Genre
- children's song
- Composer
- Kōsaku Yamada
- Record label
- Nippon Columbia
- Lyrics by
- Rofū Miki
- Image
- Ndl-digital-collection-yamadakosaku100-2-akatonbo.jpg
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- publication date
- 1934-01-01
- copyright status
- public domain
- language of work or name
- Japanese
- title
- 赤とんぼ
- form of creative work
- song
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Text
- Melody
- Recognition
- Arrangements
- References
- External links
thumb|upright|Rofū Miki (1948) (also transliterated as Akatombo, Aka Tombo, Aka Tonbo, or Aka Tomba) is a famous Japanese children's song (dōyō) composed by Kōsaku Yamada in 1927, with lyrics from a 1921 poem by Rofū Miki. It is a nostalgic depiction of a Japanese red dragonfly seen at sunset by an infant being carried on an older sister's shoulder.
== Text == The poem is written in the voice of someone recalling his infancy and being carried on the back of his sister (or nursemaid; the Japanese lyrics are ambiguous). The speaker now longs for this mother figure, who married at the age of 15, moved far away, and no longer sends news back to the speaker's village.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Akatombo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.