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The ABC Song. " The ABC Song " [a] is the best-known song used to recite the English alphabet in alphabetical order. It is commonly used to teach the alphabet to children in English-speaking countries. "The ABC Song" was first copyrighted in 1835 by Boston music publisher Charles Bradlee. The melody is from a 1761 French music book and is also ...
The Iroha (いろは) is a Japanese poem. Originally the poem was attributed to Kūkai, the founder of Shingon Buddhism, but more modern research has found the date of composition to be later in the Heian period (794–1179). [1] The first record of its existence dates from 1079.
Hiragana (平仮名, ひらがな, IPA: [çiɾaɡaꜜna, çiɾaɡana (ꜜ)]) is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word hiragana means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", as contrasted with kanji). [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Hiragana and ...
Battōtai (song) Recording made on August 8, 1939 by the Imperial Japanese Army Band conducted by Ōnuma Satoru ja. The B and C sections of the march use the "Battōtai" melody. " Battōtai " (抜刀隊, Drawn-Sword Regiment) is a Japanese gunka composed by Charles Leroux [ ja ] with lyrics by Toyama Masakazu [ ja ] in 1877.
There are three sections to the song's lyrics: standard Japanese, numbers and coded Japanese. The numbers are a code that represents the letters of the Latin alphabet (1=A, 26=Z). When decoded, the numbers (3 25 15 21 23 and 1) wrote the song's name in wāpuro rōmaji (C Y O U W A). [4]
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 [ja]. Although Takano's hometown was Nakano, Nagano, his lyrics do not seem to refer to a particular place. [1] Instead, they describe a person who is working in a distant land ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 August 2024. Song by Pikotaro "PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen)" Single by Pikotaro Released 7 October 2016 (2016-10-07) Recorded 2016 Genre J-pop, electro-pop, dance-pop, techno Length 0: 45 Label Avex Music Creative Songwriter(s) Daimaou Kosaka Producer(s) Daimaou Kosaka Pikotaro singles chronology ...
Song. Genre. Gunka. Composer (s) Kiyoshi Nobutoki, 1937. Lyricist (s) Ōtomo no Yakamochi, AD 759. " Umi Yukaba " (海行かば) is a Japanese song whose lyrics are based on a chōka poem by Ōtomo no Yakamochi in the Man'yōshū (poem 4094), an eighth century anthology of Japanese poetry, set to music by Kiyoshi Nobutoki.