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.

Contents 1 General 2 Lyrics 2.1 Japanese 2.2 Romanized Japanese 2.3 English translation 3 References 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] Lyrics

It is usually sung in three stanzas, the first of which starts with:

[edit] Japanese おどみゃ島原の　おどみゃ島原の

[edit] Romanized Japanese Odomya shimabara no, odomya shimabara no,

[edit] English translation I was born in Shimabara, I was born in Shimabara,

The original song had five stanzas. This song is a copyrighted material, and, therefore, its lyrics cannot be fully described here.

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Lullaby
• Folk song
• Other Japanese lullabies: Edo Lullaby, Itsuki Lullaby, Takeda Lullaby, Chugoku Region Lullaby, etc.

[edit] External links

• Shimabara Lullaby（(A Hundred Lullabies in Japanese, in Japan Society of Lullabies' home page)
• Shimabara Lullaby {Sung by Hiromi Iwasaki, YouTube）

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