Traditional Folk Songs of Japan

Various Artists

Release Date:

1961-01-01

Record Label:

Folkways Records

  1. $10.99

Disc 1 of 2

Track NumberTrack TitleTrack LengthTrack Price/Buy Link
1

Soran Bushi

by Group of Japanese men and women

2:50
2

Ezashi Oiwake

by Japanese singers with accompaniment

3:43
3

Dance songs at Bon in Hokkaido

by Group from Hokkaido

2:47
4

The song of the rice husking

by Group of women from Yamagata

3:58
5

Saitara Zinku/Toshima Zinku

by Group from Miyagi Prefecture

3:17
6

Songs of picking safflowers

by Group from Yamagata

2:10
7

Sawauchi Zinku

by Group from Sawauchi

3:57
8

Dyamako Bushi

by Group from Akita

2:48
9

Dance Song at Nikko

by Group from NIkko

3:06
10

Songs of Kusatsu the hot spring

by Group from Kusatsu

1:49
11

Coal miner's songs of Joban

by Group from Joban

2:44
12

Chichibu Ondo

by Chichibu man

3:41
13

Yagi Bushi

by Japanese man

3:13
14

The hack-driver's song of Hakone

by Hakone man

3:11
15

Sado Okesa

by Group from Sado Island

2:38
16

Kiso Bushi

by Group from Kiso

3:52
17

Ina Bushi

by Woman from Ina

3:55

Disc 2 of 2

Track NumberTrack TitleTrack LengthTrack Price/Buy Link
1

Dekansho song

by Group from Sasayama

3:22
2

Shigesa Bushi

by Oki Island woman

2:49
3

Songs of the stonemason

by Kitaki Island man

2:49
4

The song of the shellfish-gatherer

by Group fom Tottori Prefecture

2:38
5

The song of bathing in the hot spring

by Group from Iwai

3:28
6

Shimotsui Bushi

by Group from Okayama Prefecture

3:42
7

Yasugi Bushi

by Group from Izumo

5:06
8

Yosakoi Bushi

by Group from Tosa

3:30
9

The coal miners's song in Kyushu

by Group from Fukuoka

2:13
10

Shintaro San of the mountain

by Japanese ballad

3:17
11

Kuroda Bushi

by Group from Kyushu region

2:43
12

The mower's songs

by Group from Miyazaki Prefecture

3:31
13

Hie-pounding song

by Group from Miyazaki Prefecture

3:15
14

Songs of Kumamoto

by Group from Kumamoto Prefecture

2:09
15

Lullaby of Itsuki

by Japanese woman

2:03
16

Kagoshima Ohara Bushi

by Group from Kagoshima Prefecture

2:50
17

Hatoma Bushi

by Group from Okinawa

2:11
18

Asadoya Yunta of Okinawa

by Group from Okinawa

2:07
Duration:
1:47:22
Genres:
World, Asian, Compilation
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