Hamachidori
(Beach Plovers)
Year: 1919
Composer: Ryutaro Hirota
Poet: Meishu Kashima
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Aoi
tsuki yo no hamabe ni waOya o sagashite naku tori ga
Nami no kuni kara umare deru
Nureta tsubasa no gin no iro
On the beach beneath a blue moon night,
birds cry out, searching for their parents.
They emerge from the land of waves.
Their wet wings the color silver.
Oya o tazunete umi koete
Tsuki yo no kuni e kiete yuku
Gin no tsubasa no hamachidori
Crossing the sea, seeking their parents.
They disappear into the land of night.
Young beach plovers with silver wings.