In the garden of evening Red leaves fall, scattered Memories of love Whispers of the wind remain Sorrow's gentle refrain
And a line in kanji:
By breaking kanji into radicals, Uta/POEM performs a vivisection of the logographic system—the same system used by Imperial Japan for ideological control (e.g., Kokutai indoctrination). The fragmented “mouth radical” (口) appears repeatedly, but always detached from a whole character, signifying speechlessness. Uta AKA Poem -1972-
After the performance, a small independent label called pressed exactly 100 copies of the recording. The cover was a piece of unbleached paper stamped with a single black ideogram for “uta.” No tracklist, no liner notes, no explanation. In the garden of evening Red leaves fall,
: An ascetic, rigidly devoted servant. He lives by strict rituals, patrolling the family's property with a flashlight at midnight and devoting himself to spiritual tasks like calligraphy. The cover was a piece of unbleached paper