Credited on the record as 三文おぺら.
ハノイの恋人 [Lover of Hanoi]
1972 · Toshiba-EMI 4Rs-518 · Tokyo, Japan
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- Artist
- 三文おぺら [Sanmon Opera]
- Credited on the record as
- 三文おぺら
- Title
- ハノイの恋人 [Lover of Hanoi]
- Release
- ハノイの恋人 / 思い出にさよなら [Lover of Hanoi]
- Year
- 1972
- Label
- Toshiba-EMI # 4Rs-518
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Tokyo, Japan
- Songwriter
- 坪井雄一 & 中村治
- Genre
- Japanese Music · Folk Pop
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Japanese Songs
The song "ハノイの恋人" ("Lover of Hanoi") (Toshiba-EMI # 4Rs-518), written and composed by Yuichi Tsuboi Osamu and Nakamura. This is the same song as released by 斎藤佳代 [Kayo Saito], unknown date, below: ハノイの恋人 / 紙飛行機. Here, this was a Nagauta folk group consisting of Osamu Nakamura, Yutaka Kato, and Yuichi Tsuboi. Guests include Nobuko Tanabe (piano), Kaoru Sugiura (cello), and Akira Wakasugi (5-string banjo). Nagauta is a type of Japanese Classical Music, in the form of dance theatre / drama. The song was a love story involving a disabled veteran of the war: "I can't stand in front of you, with both my legs ripped off by a bomb".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
A. A woman whose legs were torn off by a bomb writes to her lover