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The lyrics of the song were further changed with its newer title, "Shiretoko Love Song". This version sung by Tokiko Kato became extremely popular, and single record was a million seller in Japan. She won the singer award of the 13th Japan Record Awards of 1971. [3] Shiretoko still continues to be one of the songs most often sung in Japan's ...
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.
The melody arranged by Ongaku Torishirabe-gakari was included in Collection of Japanese Koto Music issued in 1888, for beginning koto students in the Tokyo Academy of Music. [ 4 ] Often, It is the first piece that koto beginners learn because they can play any phrase by picking closer strings without skipping to distant strings. [ 2 ]
Songs with English-language lyrics originating in Japan. Pages in category "English-language Japanese songs" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
In Japan, "Ue o Muite Arukō" topped the Popular Music Selling Record chart in the Japanese magazine Music Life for three months, and was ranked as the number one song of 1961 in Japan. In the US, "Sukiyaki" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963, one of the few non-English songs to have done so, and the first in a non-European language.
Rofū Miki (1948) "Red Dragonfly" (Japanese: 赤とんぼ, Hepburn: Akatonbo) (also transliterated as Akatombo, Aka Tombo, Aka Tonbo, or Aka Tomba) is a famous Japanese children's song (dōyō) composed by Kōsaku Yamada in 1927, with lyrics from a 1921 poem by Rofū Miki.
The song is sung in Clemens Klopfenstein's film Macao (1988). The song was also used in the Japanese TV show titled Otomen. The line "fall in love maidens" (Koi seyo otome) is used as the subtitle of the video game Sakura Wars 4. From the song, the phrase "Life is short, fall in love, maidens..." (Inochi mijikashi, koi seyo otome...
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).