Image

Japanese: 《影像》 - えいぞう
Image

If we can equate tonal moments with impressionistic moments, this style might be called impressionism. However, in his music, the collaboration between nature (sensation) and imagination often transforms and repeats musical ideas, melodies, and chords by analogy, spinning out a continuity of the whole as a chain and accumulation of sound images. It is closer to symbolism than impressionism in that it is an art that allows sound to take the initiative, yet evokes something imaginative beyond the present sound, and that "when the image soars, it becomes a song" (Mallarmé).

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Image" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…音色的契機を印象的契機と同一視してよければ,この様式を印象主義の名でよべるかもしれない。しかし彼の音楽では,自然(感覚)と想像力の協働が,しばしば類推によって楽想,旋律,和音を変容しつつ反復し,音像(影像)の連鎖・堆積として全体の持続を紡ぎあげてゆく。それは,音にイニシアティブをとらせながら,しかも現前する音響のかなたに想像的なものをよびさまして,〈心象の飛揚するときは“歌”成る〉(マラルメ)ような芸術であるという点で,印象主義よりも象徴主義に近い。…

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