Summary

  VIERAのCMで流れているENYAの新曲
  http://ch.panasonic.co.jp/meta/panasonic/20040922_vieracm_koyuki_b.asx
  ♪Enya.com - SUMIREGUSA

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The lyrics for Sumiregusa were inspired by a Hokku, or Haiku, written by the Japanese poet, Basho, while he was traveling to Otsu.
He says that on his way through the mountain road the sight of a wild violet touched his heart.
We have all been moved by the beauty of nature, so I am sure we can all relate to those seventeen syllables that Basho wrote.
We have all had a moment that pulls at our heartstrings.
One such moment for me was when I was walking in the woodlands and I came across an old, broken, dying thistle.
He was such a sad sight.
There was a small history in him that would soon be lost.
And yet he struggled on.
I called him Don Quixote. I went every day to see him until he wasn't there any more.
The following year his children bloomed, he did not return.
Even today, although that place has been taken over by the ever vigorous bramble, and there are no signs of any thistles, I still pass by and remember him.
Perhaps these moments are an epiphany.
Perhaps it is our own acceptance of the world and the way it is.
Perhaps it is a celebration of life, or just a moment that is ours alone.
In Sumiregusa all of nature is equal in its power to inspire, to move, to touch ・from a small pebble to a great mountain, from one green leaf to the many colours of autumn, from the song of birds to a purple flower.

この曲の詩は松尾芭蕉が大津までの旅路で詠った俳句に影響されて書いた詩である．
彼曰く，山道の菫草の姿に心を打たれた．
※未訳

SUMIREGUSA - 菫草

ものの哀れ
紫色の花
春の花
と冬も小雪
はらはら
自然の美かな
緑の葉と
秋の色
風の声
鳥のさえずり
悲しい海
喜びの海
山
小石
アヤメ草

The poignancy of things
A purple flower
The blossoms of spring
and the light snow of winter
How they fall
The beauty of nature
A green leaf and
Autumn colours
The voice of the wind
The song of birds
A sad sea
A joyful sea
Mountains
Pebbles
A wild iris

Reference

  Enya.com - the official Enya website
  http://enya.com/
  VIERA - テレビCM
  http://panasonic.jp/viera/adv/