碧の葬列
黒を支配する
麗しく舞い降りる雪
闇に揺れながら
聳えるは麹塵の焔
震える 心身を
寝惑い 無汰うの
纏ろむ 舌先
這わせて 触れたなら・・・
神彩を嘲け握した艶めく喪ゆる真緑の碧
靄に包まれたら融けて歪み滴る
白羽は 刻まれ
百夜に 染まるの
呼霊は 浮き世に
導く 悪戯に・・・
神彩を嘲け握した艶めく喪ゆる真緑の碧
靄に包まれたら融けて歪み滴る
現世は薨ず神々は謌う揺らぐ真緑の碧
霧に今宵もまた繋ぎよなう葬列
Green Funeral Procession
Controlling the black
Snow swoops down beautifully
While swaying in darkness
A green flame rises
My mind and body shiver
A sleep delusion without choice
The tip of my tongue curls around
If I were to touch it...
The glossy, mourning true green ridiculed the gods' colours
If I can be wrapped up in haze I'll dissolve into distorted drips
White feathers are chopped up
Stained by a hundred nights
A calling soul is guided
To a fleeting life, to mischief...
The glossy, mourning true green ridiculed the gods' colours
If I can be wrapped up in haze I'll dissolve into distorted drips
In this life, the deathless gods sing of the swaying true green
And tonight again, the funeral procession is filled by mist
Notes:
The colour 碧 (ao) can be blue or green. I translated it as green because Isshi uses green a lot in the song, with no real mention of blue. For example, the "green flame" in the first stanza is 麹塵 (kikujin), the colour of a residue left over by the mold on rice that is used to make sake. The kanji are 'mold' + 'dirt' respectively, and the colour is this.
Anyway, this is a story about Hitodama, a sphere of fire with a tail, said to represent a human soul. Isshi talks about the meaning in this interview.