Translation: I'm Inside the Kotatsu, Waiting for Spring (Chu Kosaka)

I'm Inside the Kotatsu, Waiting for Spring (Kosaka/Kosaka) — or just Waiting for Spring, as the song is known on Country Pumpkin — is among my favorite Kosaka songs. The arrangement of the backing vocals is brilliant, and no song on Motto Motto makes it clear how powerful a unit Four Joe Half was, quite like this one. No wonder Haruomi Hosono elected to keep [most of] the band for himself.

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The sound of footsteps
comes clip-clopping down

from the clouds.

In due time,

the main street in town

will be similarly bustling...

I'm inside the kotatsu,

waiting for spring.

The snowmelt too,

any day now,

will go flowing

through the valley

as far as the foot of the mountains...

I'm inside the kotatsu,

waiting for spring.

Here under my grayish roof,

the ends of the floral-print kotatsu quilt

hang downwards,

one across from the other...

I'm inside the kotatsu,

waiting for spring.

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