ROKKASEN — Six Echoes of Japanese Poetry | Aoino Shikibu 1st Album

Ancient words. New echoes. ROKKASEN — Six Echoes of Japanese Poetry is the first album by Aoino Shikibu, bringing together six works from Timeless Echoes of Japan. Love, longing, dreams, separation, memory— emotions written into Japanese poetry and stories centuries ago still resonate today. This album gives those timeless emotions a new voice through contemporary music. ■ ABOUT AOINO SHIKIBU Aoino Shikibu is a fictional virtual artist and AI singer who brings the elegance and emotional world of classical Japan into the present. She is the musical voice of Timeless Echoes of Japan, reimagining Japanese poetry, literature, and traditional stories through contemporary music. Her songs draw inspiration from waka poetry, the Hyakunin Isshu, The Tale of Genji, The Tales of Ise, and other classics. Rather than simply recreating them, her music seeks the human emotions that remain within them: love and longing, joy and sorrow, dreams and memories, meetings and farewells. ROKKASEN marks the first chapter of Aoino Shikibu and Timeless Echoes of Japan. Six songs. Six stories. Six echoes across time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■ TRACKLIST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 01 | Until Hearts Meet Inspired by a waka poem by Emperor Sutoku from the Hyakunin Isshu. Like a river divided by rocks that eventually becomes one again, this song tells of two people separated for now, yet believing their paths will meet again. 🎵 Single version    • Until Hearts Meet | Japanese-Inspired Pian...   02 | When the Moon Calls Inspired by the farewell of Princess Kaguya in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. She does not return to the Moon because she wishes to leave Earth. She returns because she must. A song about leaving behind a world where she discovered love, attachment, and the sorrow of farewell. ※ Single version not yet released. 03 | Moonflower — Just for Now — Inspired by Yugao from The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. Two people meet without truly knowing one another and quietly fall in love. Rather than the tragedy that follows, this song captures the fragile happiness of one moment: Just for now, stay with me. 🎵 Single version    • Moonflower — Just for Now — | Aoino Shikib...   04 | chi-ha-ya-fu-ru Inspired by Ariwara no Narihira and Fujiwara no Takaiko in The Tales of Ise. Connecting two poems separated by more than twenty years, this song imagines Takaiko looking back on a love that could never fully become hers. A story of memory, time, and a reply arriving across the years. 🎵 Single version    • chi-ha-ya-fu-ru | Aoino Shikibu | Japanese...   05 | If I Had Known It Was a Dream Inspired by three dream poems by Ono no Komachi. To meet someone only in a dream. To regret waking. To wait for another dream— and finally to seek the dream itself. Three waka poems become one journey through longing, memory, and desire. 🎵 Single version    • If I Had Known It Was a Dream | Aoino Shik...   06 | The Scent of Blossoms Inspired by three love poems by Izumi Shikibu. A fragrance awakens a memory. A voice returns. A morning of love comes back to life. And beyond those memories remains one final wish: Just one more time— to see you again. 🎵 Single version    • The Scent of Blossoms | A Love Remembered ...   For full lyrics, original poems, literary background, and detailed interpretations, please visit the individual single videos above. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 Album jacket 00:07 Until Hearts Meet 03:23 When the Moon Calls 06:25 Moonflower — Just for Now — 10:52 chi-ha-ya-fu-ru 15:33 If I Had Known It Was a Dream 20:56 The Scent of Blossoms ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■ JAPANESE ALBUM ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 六歌選｜葵乃式部 1st Album ▶ [   • 葵乃式部｜【1st Album】六歌選 ― 平安の雅を現代へ。  ] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■ STREAMING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/albu... 🍎 Apple Music 🎼 iTunes ▶️ YouTube Music 📷 Instagram / Facebook 🎵 TikTok ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■ ABOUT TIMELESS ECHOES OF JAPAN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Timeless Echoes of Japan brings the words, stories, and emotions of classical Japan into the present through contemporary music and visual storytelling. From waka poetry and the Hyakunin Isshu to classical Japanese literature, the project explores human emotions that have survived across centuries. Not simply reproducing the classics— but listening for the hearts that still live within them. Ancient words. New echoes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■ AI DISCLOSURE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This work was created with the assistance of AI technology as a creative tool. Music, lyrics, arrangement, visuals, and artwork are produced through a creative process involving human direction, editing, selection, and artistic decisions. Aoino Shikibu is a fictional virtual artist and AI singer. She is not a real person or performer. #AoinoShikibu #JapanesePoetry #JapaneseMusic