Kisobushi

Kisobushi (in Japanese: 木曽節) is a folk song originating from the Kiso District of Nagano Prefecture, Japan.[1] It sings about the river, mountains and people who live there.

Mount Ontake
Mount Kisokoma

General

Kisobushi is a folk song originating from the Kiso District of Nagano Prefecture, Japan.[2] It sings about the river, mountains and people who live there. "Fushi" (in Japanese: 節) or "Bushi", when immediately follows another nouns, as in "Tankobushi", means a melody or a song.

Lyrics

There are several stanzas of various versions. The words, "Nakanori san", in the lyrics are generally agreed to mean the loggers who raft down the Kiso River, carrying the logs cut down from the woods in the Kiso Mountains.

See also

References
  1. Japan Magazine: A Representative Monthly of Things Japanese. Japan Magazine Company. 1925. p. 395.
  2. Faier, Lieba (2009). Intimate Encounters: Filipina Women and the Remaking of Rural Japan. University of California Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-520-25214-1.
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