Gītānjali (English spelling)

Japanese: ギーターンジャリ - ぎーたーんじゃり(英語表記)Gītānjali
Gītānjali (English spelling)

A collection of poems by the Indian poet Tagore. Published in 1910. Gita means song. Anjali means hands together in prayer, meaning "sung prayer." It is made up of 157 lyric poems written between 1906 and 1910, expressing his earnest desire to appeal to God, and the original poems have a beautiful, musical sound. They were highly praised by Yeats, Thomas Mann, Schweitzer, Gide, and others. The number of verses differs between the Bengali version and the English version (1912), and it is more appropriate to call it a rewrite in English rather than an English translation.

[Tanaka Otoya]

Teruhiro Watanabe's translation of Tagore's Poems - Gitanjali (Iwanami Bunko)

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

インドの詩人タゴールの詩集。1910年刊。ギーターは歌。アンジャリは合掌で、「歌の祈り」の意。1906年から10年までの間につくられた157編の叙情詩からなり、彼の神に訴えるせつせつたる思いを述べたもので、原詩は音楽的な美しい響きをもつ。イェーツをはじめ、トーマス・マン、シュバイツァー、ジッドらから高く評価された。ベンガリー版と英語版(1912)とは詩句の数も違い、英訳というより英語で書き直したというほうが適当である。

[田中於莵弥]

『渡辺照宏訳『タゴール詩集――ギーターンジャリ』(岩波文庫)』

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