Traditional Japanese Folk and Work Songs

14 traditional folk and work songs from Japan. Selections taken from Ryutaro Hattori’s collection (recordings made in the 1950s and early 1960s), and from the album (compilation) “Japanese Work Songs“, released in 1991 (King Records). Artists’ names are not specified. (Click “Show More“ for tracklist and further details): 01. Soran Bushi (Soran Song) (00:00) (Soran Song is the most famous folk song of Hokkaido island. It is named from the shouting to mark time [like yo-ho], as it is originally the shouting at drawing up herrings) 02. Song of Picking Safflowers (02:47) (Folk song from Yamagata Prefecture) 03. Haru Bushi - Spring Song of Shiiba (04:54) (Folk song from Shiiba, Miyazaki Prefecture) 04. Dachin Tsuke Uta - A Road-horse Charge Song (07:38) (Folk song from Shiiba, Miyazaki Prefecture) 05. Song of Rice-husking (09:06) (Folk song from Yamagata Prefecture) 06. Shigesa Bushi (13:00) (Folk song from Oki Islands, Shimane Prefecture) 07. The Mower’s Song (15:44) (Harvest song from Miyazaki Prefecture) 08. Lullaby of Itsuki (19:12) (Folk song from Kumamoto Prefecture) 09. Coal Miner’s Song (21:11) (Coal mining song from Joban, Ibaraki Prefecture) 10. Senro Tsuki-Katame Ondo (23:51) (Tamping a Railroad Track Ground song) of the Stonemason (26:36) (Work song from Kitagi-shima, Okayama Prefecture) 12. Shintaro San of the Mountain (29:21) (Folk song from Nagasaki Prefecture) 13. Hatoma Bushi (32:35) (Folk song from Okinawa) 14. Asadoya Yunta (34:43) (Folk song from Okinawa)