artist: Kumaki Anri
\ntitle: Kaze no kioku | Memory of the wind
\ndiscs: Atarashii Watashi ni Natte (single)
\n Kaze no Naka no Koushin (album)<\/p>\n
lyrics, music: Kumaki Anri
\narrangement: Yoshimata Ryou<\/p>\n
aoi chikyuu ga watashi no mune ni
\nyoru ni ukabu mangetsu wo kureta
\ndaichi no hana ga watashi no mune ni
\nshizumanai taiyou wo kureta<\/p>\n
hito to deau yoko ni wa itsumo aru
\nitsuka wakare ni kawaru yuunagi ga<\/p>\n
kaze wo kugutte umi wo koetara
\nkimi ga takarajima ni naru
\nhitokakera no yume wa
\nyure wo obiteru sakana no you ni
\nyokogitte yuku kisetsu
\nkimi to kanaeru kiseki [1]<\/p>\n
ashita no ue wo tori-tachi ga tobu
\nyoake made ni maniau you ni
\nfune no kiteki wa hajimari no oto
\nmienai yajirushi wo ukabete [2]<\/p>\n
kimi to sugoshita mijikai kioku ga
\nitsuka nagaku nobite mukae ni kuru [3]<\/p>\n
kaze wo tayori ni me wo tojita toki [4]
\nkimi ga takarajima ni naru
\nyume wo kazari nagara
\nsango no you ni nami ni yurarete
\nki ga tsuiteyuku kisetsu
\nhitotsuzuki no kono tabi<\/p>\n\n<\/div>
\tThe blue earth planted in my heart
\n\tthe full moon floating in the night sky.
\n\tThe flowers of the earth planted in my heart
\n\ta sun that never sets.<\/p>\n
\tAlong with new encounters there is always
\n\tthe calm twilight that someday becomes a farewell<\/p>\n
\tIf I pass through the wind and cross the ocean,
\n\tyou become a treasure island.
\n\tThe fragments of my dream scatter
\n\tlike goldfish when the water ripples.
\n\tThe passage of the seasons
\n\tThe miracle that I can realize with you [1]<\/p>\n
\tThe birds fly past tomorrow
\n\tto make it by dawn.
\n\tThe ship’s whistle is the sound of a beginning,
\n\tpointing an invisible arrow [2]<\/p>\n
\tSomeday, the brief memories we had together
\n\tWill lengthen and come back to meet us [3]<\/p>\n
\tWhen I let the wind close my eyes, [4]
\n\tyou become a treasure island,
\n\tdecorating my dream
\n\tlike a coral sea, undulating with the waves.
\n\tAware of the seasons that pass by
\n\tI continue on my travels<\/p>\n\n<\/div>
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> download as rich text file<\/a><\/p>\n ========== [2] mienai yajirushi wo ukabete<\/strong>: “Imagining\/thinking [of]\/remembering an arrow that cannot be seen.” My interpretation is that the speaker imagines the ship’s whistle, like an invisible arrow, pointing in the direction of the speaker’s next journey. In my previous version<\/a>, I interpreted the whistle to be signalling for departure, marking the start of the journey. <\/p>\n [3] mijikai kioku ga itsuka nagaku nobite mukae ni kuru<\/strong>. This phrase is very difficult to express gracefully in English. More literally, the short memories (mijikai kioku) will lengthen and extend (nagaku nobite), then come back to pick us up (mukae ni kuru – as in, to pick up [from the airport], to greet [after a long journey]). [4] kaze wo tayori ni me wo tojita toki<\/strong>: lit. “When I counted on (relied on) the wind to close my eyes.” This implies the speaker\u2019s eyes would otherwise remain open, but that presumably, because the wind is blowing hard enough, she has to close them, and she is thankful to the wind for making her do that.<\/p>\n More notes:<\/em>
\nNotes from this translation revision on 2016-01-17.<\/em>
\n[1] yokogitte yuku kisetsu<\/strong> = “The passage of the seasons.” kimi to kanaeru kiseki = “The miracle that I can realize with you.” There is no particle to suggest the relationship between these two phrases. It is possible that both are fragments of the dream that scatter, from the preceding lines of that verse. <\/p>\n
\nThe idea here is that our memories transform over time, becoming more colorful and more extensive as our minds fill in\/make up details and ascribe meanings, adding to the original events that were, in fact, brief. By the time the memories come back to pick us up, they are changed from before. <\/p>\n
\nEvery time I hear this song, I get a very specific image of wheat fields billowing in the breeze at dusk. Five years after my first attempt to translate this song<\/a>, I continue to feel that my translation does not do justice to Kumaki Anri’s words, the meaning of which is conveyed by the music. <\/p>\n