Itsuki no Komoriuta Lullaby of Itsuki Village 五木の子守唄

Lullaby of Itsuki Village 五木の子守唄 A japanese folk song from KyushuKumamoto 熊本地方 From the 18th century up to the Meiji era little girls of poor families were sent to rich people to work as a babysitter. Japanese lullabys are songs to describe their hard lives. Only once a year, at the OBon festival a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the spirits of one s ancestors (celebrated around the 15th of August) they were allowed to visit there family. Played on a 1. 9 Shakuhachi (ca. 1920) by Armin Lohbeck 一