[...]... relaiive smallness in size, Japanis pnri.hpdr irh nan) rz' "d BeoE.aphi cal leatures which in conjunction vith the many faceted history have produced an ex tremely large quantity of folk songs, most of which are suited for Dor songs to accompany Do, dances This one fact alone easily indi cates tbe place of lhe ,on festival in the heafts of lhe people and lhe cultural history of the August 15th is the season... alqerouoq lsoLuaLla osl ur lle +o snoLue+ o (r q s n B s l ) sl rlE osl to stuos ffi€f SONGS OF ISO ( I s o B u s h i) l de- 2.4 Mi- Laj i io "€ ll /x- o _ t) b Me- i rL Ha -Do I_ SA Hi -9 ' shi : S 24 _a, I) ,l sz !i e -Ifi it o-o I ? - jl (ru (* (ao t'I o,ts', -rsr "a I +loqs-l'rs).4 t 4)- -rl HWft.fr,ffi COAL MINERS SONGS JOBAN OF (Joban Tanko Bushi) L z bI ) JO ITSJYSOX SCNOS H & i# Songs of Kqsabu ( KusatsuBushi) J,= €Bl t- t a-Eltl''H-r ( r.'y r 1 ) Kusatsuis a goodplaceto goi #'i401+l: t, ( , t ) iEit4 ( j You must visit once in your lifetime, -1-=1-r), (7-4' For flowers bloom... forest of pine trees Kusatsuis a good place to go; €eJL"t aE^@a{"d ( Fv - J :/ ) You may carry home in your sleeves if,ir'lr.1Ea(- t + ) Ehra La j The sweet fagrance of the hot spring (7 14+ 114+) The songs are coDparatively of lata comlositio[ characleristics ol the hot spriigs at Kusatsu an(l ex]Iossive ol the 30 Ig rJlrrrto uu' 's rc lerlrra,{ lo.ruov T +,f-rl 1,1 + -1! r., oli+'i )* :r q =-t.-ai . namely, "Bon Songs of Soma , -&apos ;Songs of.Saitara', Songs of Picking Safflowers , Songs of Kokkiriko" and >ones ot 5hrrnotsul - Japanese folk songs are yearly. folk songs lt is iniended to be a collection of the mosi repr€sentative songs ol our country and to offer a handbook of the iolk -songs which are still being sung through- Folk- songs. 33 songs out of ihe innumerabJe number of Japanese folk- songs were selected and iniroduced which left much to be desired so that, in this Revised Edition, I have added five orher songs.