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SAPPHO IN THE LAND OF THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS / 菊の国のサッフォー
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Opening: 15-07-2017



Whispering Beauties, by Uemura Shōen (1875–1949), Japan

 

SAPPHO IN THE LAND OF THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS / 菊の国のサッフォー

A Greek-Japanese homage to the archaic Greek poetess Sappho.

15 July 2017

Delphi, Greece

 

In collaboration with:

 

a. Laboratory of Music Acoustics and Technology, Department of Music Studies of the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (http://en.labmat.music.uoa.gr)

 

b. The Lab of Environmental Communication and Audiovisual Representation (LECAD), Department of Architecture at the University of Thessaly, Greece (http://lecad.arch.uth.gr/el/profile)

 

c. The University of Tokyo, Japan (http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/index.html)

 

d. Futaba Sato, Junko Nagata, Ioannis Stratakis.

 

 

SAPPHO 

 

01. Some say horsemen, some say warriors,

Some say a fleet of ships is the loveliest

Vision in this dark world, but I say it’s

What you love.

Translated by A. S. Kline

 

 

月は入り

すばるも落ちて

夜はいま

丑満の

時はすぎ

うつろひ行くを

我のみは

ひとりしねむる

断片52 (呉茂一) translated by Prof. Shigeichi Kure

 

 

02. The moon has set

And the Pleiades;

It is midnight,

The time is going by,

And I sleep alone.

Translated by Henry Thornton Warton, 1887

 

 

 

03. Come back to me, I beg you, Gongyla!

Show yourself to me again

wering the milk-white robe!

Oh, what beauty!

If you but knew what passions you excite, thus adorned!

And how joyful I am that it is not I,

…but the Goddess of Cyprus hershelf…


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