{"id":1486,"date":"2011-01-16T15:24:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T07:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2011-01-17T20:11:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T12:11:07","slug":"maaya-sakamoto-utsukushii-hito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2011\/01\/16\/maaya-sakamoto-utsukushii-hito\/","title":{"rendered":"Maaya Sakamoto – Utsukushii Hito"},"content":{"rendered":"

Triangler<\/a><\/p>\n

Maaya’s latest album You can’t catch me<\/strong><\/a> was just released a few days ago. The best song in the new album is by far Utsukushii Hito<\/strong>, a collaboration with Yoko Kanno<\/a> for the Kentoushi Fune Saigen Project<\/a> at last year’s Shanghai World Expo. The exhibition itself was basically a replica of a ship used during the Tang Dynasty to bring Japanese envoys to China and Utsukushii Hito was the official theme song for the project. Maaya performed it live at the ship’s departure ceremony from Osaka but didn’t actually show up at the Expo.<\/p>\n

Lyrics and translation after the break.<\/p>\n

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Utsukushii Hito<\/strong>
\nMaaya Sakamoto<\/p>\n

kono koe ga kikoeru nara wataridori yo michibiite
\ninochi ga oboeteiru harukanaru ano basho e<\/p>\n

uminari kokoro ga osore ni torawarenu you ni
\nutatte anata no umareta kuni no kotoba de<\/p>\n

meili de ren mitsumeaeba meili de ren
\nhitomi no naka onaji kibou no hi wo tomoshiteru<\/p>\n

mada minu kanochi no hana wa marude suzunone no hibiki
\nnishi eto mukau kaze ni akogare yo habataite<\/p>\n

tenohira kasanete namiutsu futatsu no kodou
\noshiete futari wo hedateteiru mono wa nani<\/p>\n

qin’ai de ren toki ga kureba qin’ai de ren
\nhikari no naka kodoku wa nukumori ni toketeiku<\/p>\n

kono koe ga kikoeru nara wataridori yo michibiite
\nkiri mo yoru mo arashi mo ai dake wa ubaenai
\ntori ga umi wo wataru you ni hito wa hito wo shiru tame ni
\ninochi ga oboeteiru harukanaru ano basho e<\/p>\n

anata ni furete hoshii akogare yo dakiyosete<\/p>\n

todoite watashi no umareta kuni no kotoba de
\nmeili de ren aishiteiru meili de ren
\nmeili de ren aishiteiru meili de ren<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Beautiful Person<\/strong>
\nMaaya Sakamoto<\/p>\n

O birds of passage, show me the way if you hear my voice.
\nLead me to the distant land that my life remembers.<\/p>\n

Ocean rumbles, please let my heart be free from fear.
\nSing for me, in the tongue of the land you were born in.<\/p>\n

Beautiful person, if you look into my eyes, beautiful person,
\nYou’ll see in your eyes, the same flames of hope are lit.<\/p>\n

The flowers in that land we cannot yet see, are like the sound of ringing bells.
\nO my yearnings, spread your wings and fly with the westward breeze.<\/p>\n

Put your palm over mine and feel the beating of our hearts.
\nTell me, what is it that separates us from each other?<\/p>\n

Dearest person, when the time comes, dearest person,
\nIn the light, loneliness will melt away in a warm embrace.<\/p>\n

O birds of passage, show me the way if you hear my voice.
\nThrough the fog, the night, the storm, my love cannot be taken.
\nSo people may understand others like the birds fly across oceans,
\nLead us to the distant land that our lives remember.<\/p>\n

I long for your touch. O my yearnings, embrace me.<\/p>\n

May my feelings reach you, in the tongue of the land I was born in.
\nBeautiful person, I love you, beautiful person.
\nBeautiful person, I love you, beautiful person.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Click for: Kanji<\/strong><\/a> | Printable<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Interestingly, the chorus contains two short phrases sang in Mandarin Chinese but rendered in Japanese kanji in the lyrics booklet (probably out of typesetting convenience). I am not 100% certain, but I think this may be the first time Maaya sang anything in Chinese. :O<\/p>\n

Such an awesome song. Gives me chills in a good way. \u00e7\u00be\u017d\u00e4\u00b8\u00bd\u00e7\u0161\u201e\u00e4\u00ba\u00ba :D<\/p>\n

P.S. Speaking of Chinese lyrics in Japanese songs, check out ALI PROJECT’s Feihong De Mudan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maaya’s latest album You can’t catch me was just released a few days ago. The best song in the new album is by far Utsukushii Hito, a collaboration with Yoko Kanno for the Kentoushi Fune Saigen Project at last year’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[62,48,22,968,732,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}