The Eboshi Tatara Song

Music by Joe Hisaishi

Japanese

Hitotsu Futatsu wa Akago mo Fumuga
Mittsu Yottsu wa Oni mo Naku, Naku
Tatara Onna wa Kogane no Nasake
Tokete Nagarerya Yaiba ni Kawaru

One, Two, even babies can push
Three, Four, even an ogre would cry (*)
The golden love of a Tatara woman
Melts and flows, and changes into a blade.

(*) Tatara is a huge foot bellow. In MH, women push it to send air into the furnace to melt iron sands. The song is a "counting song" to get the timing to push the foot bellow (it's pushed by several women). It's physically strenuous work, therefore, "even an ogre would cry".

A reduced quality (mono, 22 kHz) mpeg layer III sample version can be found at Nausicaa.Net (tkca71168_t12_32m.mp3, about 350k - use right-click to download)

The full quality version can be found on Mononoke Hime Soundtrack, TKCA-71168, as track 12. (See CD Covers & Info)

( ) is added by the translator to supplement the words to make things easier to understand.

This is not, by any means, an accurate word for word translation. The translator simply does not have the capability, the patience, or the dictionary for that (excuses, excuses ^^;;).

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Music by Joe Hisaishi.
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