If I say, "Let's play?"
you say, "Let's play!"
If I say, "Stupid!"
you say, "Stupid!"
If I say, "I don't want to play anymore,"
you say, "I don't want to play anymore."
And then, after a while,
becoming lonely
I say, "Sorry."
You say, "Sorry."
Are you just an echo?
No, you are everyone.
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ARE YOU AN ECHO?／SORAIRO
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ARE YOU AN ECHO?／AYAME
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ARE YOU AN ECHO?／WAKAKUSA
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ARE YOU AN ECHO?／USUKOUBAI
ARE YOU AN ECHO?
Translations by Sally Ito & Michiko Tsuboi / JULA
〈Design descriptions〉
With its striking color and layered clouds, the beauty of the sky reminds us of the famous Misuzu Kaneko piece, “Are You an Echo.”
The translucent water drops, large and small, are layered atop each other, are meant to evoke the echoes in Misuzu’s poem.
The plants superimposed diagonally onto the image are there to add a sharp touch.