Uploaded April 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Disclaimer: I own nothing of this video other than the translation. All credits go to their original creators.
Author's Comment:
The bird, it will fly again today.
The bird, what colour eyes is it staring with?
The bird, what is it thinking as it stares?
The world where people and gods were seen by the bird of flames, what kind of world is that?
~~~I've linked iroha(sasaki)'s Youtube upload in the links section, and if you like this song, it would be amazing if you could head over to the video and subscribe, give it a like and leave some comments for the amazing creators to see directly!~~~
Okay this song was really hard and it took me forever soz. Um where to start.
The title was really confusing and let me explain why. At first I had no idea what the title was, but then inside sources told me that it closely resembles a Chinese chengyu (4-character idiom) or a Japanese yojijukugo. Research on both these structures informed me that the meaning of the idiom can often widely vary from the readings/meanings of the characters. So I tried to see if this was an existing idiom with a pre-established meaning but I couldn't find anything. So I thought the best option would be to simply translate the title into English keeping in mind both the kanji and reading.
The title is read as 'midori youyou'. 三 (three), 鳥 (bird[s]), 夭夭 (archaic term that it kind of means somebody who is young, beautiful, calm and carefree, from what I read. It's fascinating how that all fits into two characters). 'Midori' while in this case meaning 'three birds', is the word for 'green', so complying with the song's emphasis on colours, I thought that it'd be best to also include that meaning into the title as well. So there you see how I got 'The Three Birds' Beautiful Youth' from 三鳥夭夭.
Update: A viewer has nicely informed me that 三鳥 can also be read as 'sanchou' meaning cuckoo bird. It was pretty silly of me to miss this, but in the description for iroha(sasaki)'s Niconico upload, they state that it is read as 'midori' so it pretty much slipped my mind to investigate other readings/options. I changed the title accordingly because I feel it sounds better, so sorry for confusing y'all!
I purposely didn't sub the title into the video though, because I want to keep it open for people with more experience with chengyu (I have no Chinese knowledge beyond nihao and zai jian) to provide a more accurate translation for the characters. So yeah, comment if you're in the mood to help!
Because I'm still fairly new to some archaic Japanese terms, I'm unsure about this translation. While I think I did okay, some things may have just completely gone over my head. I'll fix any that are came across using annotations, and if it's too incorrect I'll just take the video down and sob all over everything.
Now we have that cleared up, hello y'all! Sorry for being away so long, work and school (also apparently I have a social life when was that a thing) have been pretty busy lately and I've been swamped ;A; I'm glad I finally got to do a VY1 song though! Cyber Thunder Cider is one of my favourite songs ever~
I love iroha(sasaki)'s tuning though, with the instrumentals and vibrant art they really made a beautiful song uwu
I hope you guys find this as pretty as I do.
As for my recommendations, I think it's obvious what my favourite iroha(sasaki) song is and I'm 99.9% sure you've already listened to/loved it, so.
Translator's Notes:
-title mumbojumbo mumbles from me up above
-after the first chorus VY1 sings 'aoi' which usually means 'blue', but also has connotations of 'green', and with the colouring of the Japanese text, translating it as 'green' seemed more appropriate.
-if I remember anything else I'll post it.
-it was mostly just a bunch of archaic terms I'd never encountered before but I think I got them all.
Credits:
Illustrations/Video: Clovia Studio
Lyrics: Tokiwa En
Music: iroha(sasaki)
Links:
iroha(sasaki) original upload: nicovideo.jp/watch/sm20632200
iroha(sasaki) original Youtube upload: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ1c5B...
Thanks again and hope y'all enjoy!
Disclaimer: I own nothing of this video other than the translation. All credits go to their original creators.
Author's Comment:
The bird, it will fly again today.
The bird, what colour eyes is it staring with?
The bird, what is it thinking as it stares?
The world where people and gods were seen by the bird of flames, what kind of world is that?
~~~I've linked iroha(sasaki)'s Youtube upload in the links section, and if you like this song, it would be amazing if you could head over to the video and subscribe, give it a like and leave some comments for the amazing creators to see directly!~~~
Okay this song was really hard and it took me forever soz. Um where to start.
The title was really confusing and let me explain why. At first I had no idea what the title was, but then inside sources told me that it closely resembles a Chinese chengyu (4-character idiom) or a Japanese yojijukugo. Research on both these structures informed me that the meaning of the idiom can often widely vary from the readings/meanings of the characters. So I tried to see if this was an existing idiom with a pre-established meaning but I couldn't find anything. So I thought the best option would be to simply translate the title into English keeping in mind both the kanji and reading.
The title is read as 'midori youyou'. 三 (three), 鳥 (bird[s]), 夭夭 (archaic term that it kind of means somebody who is young, beautiful, calm and carefree, from what I read. It's fascinating how that all fits into two characters). 'Midori' while in this case meaning 'three birds', is the word for 'green', so complying with the song's emphasis on colours, I thought that it'd be best to also include that meaning into the title as well. So there you see how I got 'The Three Birds' Beautiful Youth' from 三鳥夭夭.
Update: A viewer has nicely informed me that 三鳥 can also be read as 'sanchou' meaning cuckoo bird. It was pretty silly of me to miss this, but in the description for iroha(sasaki)'s Niconico upload, they state that it is read as 'midori' so it pretty much slipped my mind to investigate other readings/options. I changed the title accordingly because I feel it sounds better, so sorry for confusing y'all!
I purposely didn't sub the title into the video though, because I want to keep it open for people with more experience with chengyu (I have no Chinese knowledge beyond nihao and zai jian) to provide a more accurate translation for the characters. So yeah, comment if you're in the mood to help!
Because I'm still fairly new to some archaic Japanese terms, I'm unsure about this translation. While I think I did okay, some things may have just completely gone over my head. I'll fix any that are came across using annotations, and if it's too incorrect I'll just take the video down and sob all over everything.
Now we have that cleared up, hello y'all! Sorry for being away so long, work and school (also apparently I have a social life when was that a thing) have been pretty busy lately and I've been swamped ;A; I'm glad I finally got to do a VY1 song though! Cyber Thunder Cider is one of my favourite songs ever~
I love iroha(sasaki)'s tuning though, with the instrumentals and vibrant art they really made a beautiful song uwu
I hope you guys find this as pretty as I do.
As for my recommendations, I think it's obvious what my favourite iroha(sasaki) song is and I'm 99.9% sure you've already listened to/loved it, so.
Translator's Notes:
-title mumbojumbo mumbles from me up above
-after the first chorus VY1 sings 'aoi' which usually means 'blue', but also has connotations of 'green', and with the colouring of the Japanese text, translating it as 'green' seemed more appropriate.
-if I remember anything else I'll post it.
-it was mostly just a bunch of archaic terms I'd never encountered before but I think I got them all.
Credits:
Illustrations/Video: Clovia Studio
Lyrics: Tokiwa En
Music: iroha(sasaki)
Links:
iroha(sasaki) original upload: nicovideo.jp/watch/sm20632200
iroha(sasaki) original Youtube upload: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ1c5B...
Thanks again and hope y'all enjoy!
