User:Ethanbas/Akatombo

"Red Dragonfly" (赤とんぼ, transliterated as "Akatombo", "Aka Tombo", "Akatonbo", "Aka Tonbo", or "Aka Tomba") is a famous Japanese children's song composed by Kosaku Yamada in 1927 with lyrics from a 1921 poem by Miki Rofū. It is a nostalgic depiction of a red dragonfly seen by an infant over a sister's shoulder at sunset.

Yamada was heavily influenced by Robert Schumann and other German composers, and the pentatonic melody of this song closely resembles a musical phrase that is prominently repeated numerous times in Schumann's Concert Allegro with Introduction for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 134 (1853).