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Shimabara Lullaby

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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

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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 and 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

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The original song had five stanzas, but is usually sung in three stanzas, the first of which starts with:

The lyrics cannot be fully listed for copyright reason.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ About Shimabara Lullaby (in Japanese)
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  • Shimabara Lullaby (A Hundred Lullabies in Japanese, in Japan Society of Lullabies' home page)