Shimabara Lullaby
Shimabara Lullaby (Japanese: 島原の子守唄 or Shimabara no komoriuta) is a folk song-like lullaby by Kohei Miyazaki of Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.
General[]
Shimabara Lullaby was written in the early 1950s by Kohei Miyazaki (1917-1980). It is related to the Karayuki-san, the poor Japanese girls sold to work overseas as prostitutes, in Southern China, the Pacific island areas, such as Sandakan on Borneo.[1]
This song became famous when Chiyoko Shimakura recorded it in 1957, followed later the recordings by Peggy Hayama, Hisaya Morishige and others.
Lyrics[]
It is usually sung in three stanzas, the first of which starts with:
Japanese[]おどみゃ島原の おどみゃ島原の
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Romanized Japanese[]Odomya shimabara no, odomya shimabara no,
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English translation[]I was born in Shimabara, I was born in Shimabara,
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The original song had five stanzas. This song is a copyrighted material, and, therefore, its lyrics cannot be fully described here.
See also[]
- Lullaby
- Folk song
- Other Japanese lullabies: Edo Lullaby, Itsuki Lullaby, Takeda Lullaby, Chugoku Region Lullaby, etc.
References[]
- ^ About Shimabara Lullaby (in Japanese)
External links[]
- Shimabara Lullaby（(A Hundred Lullabies in Japanese, in Japan Society of Lullabies' home page)
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