This I say to you: A dragonette (a rare Japanese poetic genre), in the style of Tatsu Kushibuchi (a now dead 20th century Gumma Prefecture farm wife and poet), sung acapella with triple repetition

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The lyrics to this song were written on 25 February 2023. Each of the three verses is what I call a dragonette, a type of Japanese used by Tatsu Kushibuchi, a woman who was already over 80 years old when I first met her 40 years ago. The dragonette consists of five lines like a tanka, but its syllabification is 5-5-6-7-7. I recorded this acapella on 20 March 2023. I edited as a music video on 25 March 2023. It has not been uploaded to any other video sharing service and there are no present plans to do.

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