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Sakura Sakura" (さくら さくら, "Cherry blossoms, cherry blossoms"), also known as "Sakura", is a traditional Japanese folk song depicting spring, the season of cherry blossoms. It is often sung in international settings as a song representative of Japan. [1]
Sōran Bushi (ソーラン節) is one of the most famous traditional songs and dance in Japan. It is a sea shanty that is said to have been first sung by the fishermen of Hokkaido . The commonly known version of the song and dance is called Nanchū Sōran ( 南中ソーラン ) and was created in 1991 at the Wakkanai Minami Junior High School.
The "Grade" column specifies the grade in which the kanji is taught in Elementary schools in Japan. Grade "S" means that it is taught in secondary school . The list is sorted by Japanese reading ( on'yomi in katakana , then kun'yomi in hiragana ), in accordance with the ordering in the official Jōyō table.
The word for "music" in Japanese is 音楽 (ongaku), combining the kanji 音 on (sound) with the kanji 楽 gaku (music, comfort). [1] Japan is the world's largest market for music on physical media [ citation needed ] and the second-largest overall music market , with a retail value of US$2.7 billion in 2017.
The literal translation of "ondo" is "sound head." Kanji, or the Chinese characters used in the Japanese language, often have literal and abstract meanings, here the kanji for "sound" (音-on) having a more abstract meaning of "melody" or "music," and the kanji for "head," (頭) having a more abstract meaning of "beat," "base pattern."
"Kimigayo" is the national anthem of Japan.The lyrics are from a waka poem written by an unnamed author in the Heian period (794–1185), [1] and the current melody was chosen in 1880, [2] replacing an unpopular melody composed by John William Fenton in 1869.
The song is about a pregnant woman In this theory the "kagome" is a pregnant woman. Someone pushes her down a flight of stairs ("tsuru to kame ga subetta") and she miscarries, and wonders who killed her child ("ushiro no shoumen daare"). The song is about a convict to be executed The "kagome" is a prison cell, and the bird is its prisoner.
His most popular song, "Ue o Muite Arukō" ("I look up when I walk") is the only Japanese song to reach number one on the Billboard pop charts in the United States, a position it maintained for three weeks in 1963. It was also the first-ever Japanese language song to enter the Australian charts, where it reached #2.