“Red Dragonfly” (also transliterated as Akatonbo) is a famous Japanese children’s song (dōyō) composed by Kōsaku Yamada in 1927, with lyrics from a 1921 poem by Rofū Miki. It is a nostalgic depiction of a Japanese red dragonfly seen at sunset by an infant being carried on an older sister’s shoulder.The poem is written in […]