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Furusato (Japanese: 故郷, ' old home ' or ' hometown ') is a well-known 1914 Japanese children's song, with music by Teiichi Okano and lyrics by Tatsuyuki Takano [].. Although Takano's hometown was Nakano, Nagano, his lyrics do not seem to refer to a particular place. [1]
The first Japanese translation of the Kural text was made by Shuzo Matsunaga in 1981. [2] [3] [4] Work on the translation began in the 1970s when Matsunaga chanced upon a few translated lines from the original work. Through his pen-pal in India, he obtained guidance and a copy of an English translation of the work by George Uglow Pope. [5]
The Translated songs (Japanese: 翻訳唱歌, Honyaku shōka, meaning "translated songs") in the narrow sense are the foreign-language songs that were translated into Japanese, when Western-style songs were introduced into school education in the Meiji era (the latter half of the 19th century) of Japan.
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The centuries-old lyrics are often incomprehensible to modern Japanese (especially to children who are singing it), and others can be quite sinister on close analysis. [ citation needed ] Like many children's songs around the world, because people are used to them from an early age, they are often oblivious to the real meanings.
Nanatsu no Ko (七つの子, lit. Seven children, or Seven baby crows, The crow's seven chicks) [1] [2] [3] is a popular [3] Japanese children's song with lyrics written by Ujō Noguchi (野口雨情 Noguchi Ujō) and composed by Nagayo Motoori (本居 長世 Motoori Nagayo).
In 1969, the folk singing group Akai Tori [] (赤い鳥) made this song popular, and their single, recorded in 1971, became a bestseller.The song has also an additional history in that NHK and other major Japanese broadcasting networks refrained from playing it because it is related to burakumin activities, but this ban was stopped during the 1990s.
Edo Lullaby (Japanese: 江戸子守唄 or Edo komoriuta) is a traditional Japanese cradle song. It originated in Edo , was propagated to other areas, and is said to be the roots of the Japanese lullabies.