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    1o peatsut Surs I+reaq xuJ +o ssaupreL{ aLll Jol

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  • @"> 3 g'fHIE - POUNDING SONGS

    (H ie Tsuk i B tsh i )

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    Hie-Pounding Song

    On to the wild ash tree

    I w i l l pu t a be l l , yo ho i ;

    When il i ingles. you comc out, yo.

    When it i ingles, j ingles,

    For what excuse shall I come, yo hoi?For watering the horse, ! ' l l come our,

    yo.

    Pound as I may,The hulls never come.off, yo hoi;In what depths of a ware house, has it

    come, yo?

    You have descendedFrom the Heike clan of peerage, yo hoi;l 'm offshoot of the Nasu, the chasti-

    sers, yo.

    Daihachi of Nasu had to partWith Tsurutomi the maid, yo hoi,ln the v i l lage o f Sh i iba ;His eyes were bathed in tcars, yo.

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    uorJ rsauos pazlurapour ro'onrul se a ^op auor 3^Eq sapolsur r{al loN

    16

    iPa^olaq raq ro] Irr ueaq aql 'qv

    :sualsrl rapu aq] 'Paa+s slq BurlleH

    iolo) +o llsnLu aql ro

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  • EffiOF KURODA

    uloda Bushi)

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    (Kagoshima Ohara Busm rModelato;:90

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  • FT!CEASADOYA YUNT

    /5

    A OF OKINAVA

    Moilerato

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    SONGS OF HATOMA ISLE( Hatoma Bushi)

    Uelody i .ansc f ibed by Hat to r i

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    Ka i sla! -

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    trIu , .i-

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  • Songs of Hatoma lslelHatoma Bush i )

    C l imb the h i l l on HatomaAnd cast your eyes ove. there.

    You wil l see the kuba trees,Crowing ever stately on the summit.

    An Amefican acquaintance oi mtne saiddispassionately artr hearing a hau dozenJapanese folk songs, "They all have ih sanreso.rowful, mournfltl tune." The look on hrsfac-" shoved thal he waln t in the least inier'

    One month later vhen he Nas aboul tortu.n home afler faveling alon8 rarjousparts of Japan, this Amerlcan came io see meagain. lvhen I mcr him, he began io sing theKuroda Bushi (Imayo), an old Japanese lolksong, and 'ian.e wlth .ather uncertain steps

    Some years earlier, a large American pub-lishing company sent me a letler asking fo.permission lo publlsh in some primary schooibooks the "Yosakoi Bushi of Tosa" and thc"Coalminer's Song in the Joban Disidct,vhich I had edited in a Colleciion of JapaneseFolk Songs.

    l'oreignrs usually preler folk songs witha light, .hylhmical tune. The songs n'hrchihe fofeignrs kno1v, however, are only asmall para of the great number ol Japanesefolk songs songs which have rich variationsof aun, m.aning and ihythm.

    Folk sonss, lvhose o.igin! and authoG havelong since been forgotten. have been handeddovn ihrough lhe ages f.om generation togeneration. It is only natural that Japan,\ h : , h a a l o n s ' r i " o r ) , h u u l d b e r i r h i n

    ForeigneE n'ho hear Japanese folk songsfor ih fiNt time usually say they all soundthc same-sorrowrul and melanclroly-andthey cannot ieli ihe difference one irom thcoihr. lf lhey listen carefully, howeve., theywill discover that there is a difference. Thfolk songs of the Tohoku distict in north_eastern .Iapan differ from ihose of the Kyushudist.ict in souihern Japan.

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