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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 [].. Although Takano's hometown was Nakano, Nagano, his lyrics do not seem to refer to a particular place. [1]
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.
"Kagome Kagome" (かごめかごめ, or 籠目籠目) is a Japanese children's game and the song associated with it.One player is chosen as the Oni (literally demon or ogre, but similar to the concept of "it" in tag) and sits blindfolded (or with their eyes covered).
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).
"Anata no Koibito ni Naritai no Desu" (貴方の恋人になりたいのです, "I Want to Be Your Lover") is a song by Mao Abe. It was originally released as her unofficial debut, in the form of an acoustic demo released to iTunes on August 6, 2008 (). [1]
The centuries-old lyrics are often incomprehensible to modern Japanese (especially to children who are singing it), and others can be quite sinister on close analysis. [citation needed] Like many children's songs around the world, because people are used to them from an early age, they are often oblivious to the real meanings.
"Katyusha's Song" (カチューシャの唄, Kachūsha no Uta), [1] or "Song of Katyusha", [2] is a Japanese song which was highly popular in early-20th century Japan. It was composed in the major pentatonic scale by Shinpei Nakayama [ 3 ] with lyrics by Soeda Azenbō . [ 4 ]
"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.