Does anyone know the origin of Akikawa Masashi's song "A Thousand Winds"? Like Japanese folk songs. Thanks!

This song was originally an English poem. Later, in order to commemorate those who died in the Great Hanshin Earthquake in Japan, it was composed and adapted into this touching Japanese song.

The author is a very famous painter in Japan, but unfortunately he has passed away. Before she was alive, the old man had chatted with her and was a very kind person.

private tomb の前でcry かないでください

そこにprivate はいません sleep ってなんかいません

千の风に

Winter はダイヤのようにきらめく雪になる

日は鸟になってあなたを目覚めさせる

夜は星になってあなたを见肖る

private のお Tomb の前でcry かないでください

そこにprivate はいません死んでなんかいません

千の风に

千の风になって

あの大きな空を

风き多っています

千の风に

千の风になって

あの大きな空を

风き多っています

あの大きな空を

BLOWING き多っています

THOUSAND WINDS

Do not stand at my grave and weep,

I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow;

I am the diamond glints on snow,

I am the sunlight on ripened grain;

I am the gentle autumn's rain .

When you awake in the morning bush,

I am the swift uplifting rush

Of quiet in circled flight.

I am the soft star that shines at night.

Do not stand at my grave and cry.

I am not there; I did not die.

95 It caused a huge response after it was broadcast on the BBC in the UK. In the horrific incident of the Irish Revolutionary Army, a 24-year-old young man gave his parents an envelope before he died and said, "Please open it after I die." The envelope contained that poem

Please don’t cry at my grave

I am not there, I will not sleep there

A thousand gusts of wind

I have become one Thousands of winds

Blowing through the vast sky

In autumn I am the sunshine, shining on the fields

In winter I am the white snow shining like diamonds

In the morning I am a little bird, gently waking you up

At night I am a star in the sky, waiting for your dreams

About the author, who arrived in the United States in the 19th century The British have many theories such as being inherited by Native Americans. In short, this is a wind-like poem that I don’t know when and where it was born.