葛飾北斎は、18・19世紀・江戸時代後期の浮世絵師として、きわめて一般の人々に愛されて、芸術作品としても、イラストとしての普及作品にもなっています。ゴッホを始め、西欧の印象派の誕生にも影響を与えたのは、その画風のオリジナリティが際立っていたからです。
日本人の感性を日本人が描く、という私にとっては、この北斎の絵を取り上げようとしたことは、極めて自然だと自分なりに感じています。その大胆な構図からは、現代的な刺激を受けるに充分で、日本の伝統音楽を自由に展開さすことが可能でした。
曲全体は、風景を印象的に描くという、解り易い構成をとっていますから、大編成のオーケストラ的な音量の設計も、少人数編成のウィンド・アンサンブルのための作品として仕上げることも可能です。
【演奏に際して】
「凱風快晴」では、赤い富士は朝焼けに染まった、というイメージでのファンタジーを描いてみました。大きな稜線が重なり、雲に包まれ、鳥の声も聞こえて来たり、といったメルヘンのバックグラウンドです。裾野を支える低音部、高音部の赤く染まった稜線、Sax.セクションのトリルとTrumpetで湧き上がる雲、鍵盤打楽器の光、全てを立体的に表現します。その中から雄大な富士の姿を描いて下さい。
「相州梅沢庄」は、幻想的な蒼い富士に鶴が優雅に舞います。新春の朝でしょう。清々しく飛び立つ鶴の姿を、美しいワルツで歌います。各パートともに、音色の美しさと淀みのない流れを求めましょう。リズムの刻みは、決して堅く・鋭くならないように、柔らかく旋律を包み込んで行きます。
ドビュッシーの「海」の楽譜表紙になった「神奈川沖浪裏」は、富士を飲み込むかように、高く激しく豪快に迫り来る怒濤、それに挑むかのような漁船。打楽器群は、乱れることなく挑みます。そこには、漕ぎ手の勇敢な力強さを感じさせます。打楽器アンサンブルの多彩さを求め和太鼓を加えることも可能です。遠くに見える富士の姿は、波浪に飲み込まれることなく、むしろ一体となった絵となって、大きく見えて来ます。木管アンサンブルで創り出す大きな浪を背景に、雄大な富士のコラールで終わります。(櫛田てつ之扶)
This piece was inspired by my impressions of three paintings from Hokusai's "Thirtysix Views of Mount Fuji."
Hokusai was a popular and wellloved ukiyoe artist from the late Edo period (18th and 19th centuries), and his works are widely recognized by the general public. His style of painting was so distinctively original that it played an influential role in the birth of impressionism in Western Europe, including having an impact on the style of Van Gogh.
As a Japanese person myself, it feels highly natural for me to work with the Japanese aesthetic sensibility embodied by Hokusai's paintings. The bold composition of Hokusai's work was enough to offer me a modern inspiration with which I could freely develop the elements of traditional Japanese music.
This entire piece is structured in a straightforward manner in its portrayal of striking landscapes, so it can be performed by large orchestras by adjusting the acoustic elements accordingly, or by smaller wind ensembles.
"Fine Breezy Day" is a fantasy inspired by the image of a crimson Mt. Fuji suffused with the light of dawn. This is the land of fairy tales surrounded by clouds, large overlapping ridgelines, and birds chirping in the background. With the foot of the mountain depicted by the bass section, the reddish ridges by the treble section, the rising clouds by the trumpets and the trills of the saxophones, and the light by the keyboard and percussion, the result is a highly realistic tapestry with which the majestic figure of Mt. Fuji can be evoked.
In "Umezawa Hamletfields in Sagami Province," cranes dance gracefully over Mt. Fuji, which is doused in a magical blue hue on a morning in early spring. The beautiful waltz in this section depicts the cranes taking off elegantly. Each part should strive for a beautiful tone and an uninterrupted flow. The rhythmic beats should guide the melody delicately without being too firm or sharp.
"The Great Wave off Kanagawa," which had appeared on the cover of Debussy's "The Sea," depicts a high, raging wave surging fiercely and threatening to swallow up Mt. Fuji, alongside a fishing boat that appears to be taking on the wave. In this section, the percussion instruments converge into a unified front that symbolizes the rowers' courage and strength. Taiko drums can also be included for greater variety. The figure of Mt. Fuji in the distance gradually becomes one with the larger foreground instead of being swallowed up by the wave. The piece closes with a chorale extolling the magnificence of Mt. Fuji against the backdrop of the large wave represented by the woodwind ensemble.
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