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O Edo Nihon Bashi

お江戸日本橋

[Genre]Min'yo
[School]Min'yo
[Also Known As]The Nihonbashi Bridge in Edo

O Edo Nihon Bashi appears on the following albums

Album Artist
Play ButtonEvening Snow Shakuhachi : Tani Senzan
Koto : Tanaka Yōko
Play ButtonFlower Dance - Japanese Folk Melodies
A cheerful melody of Oedo nihonbashi-the bridge built in Nihonbashi Edo (the old name of Tokyo}-is one of the children's songs, widely known along with Sakura Sakura. The music praises the beauty and the grandeur of the wooden bridge.
Play ButtonFlute and Koto of Japan Shamisen : Yonekawa Toshiko
Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō

Japan Revisited Shakuhachi : Ono Mamoru
Play ButtonKoto Music of Japan

Koto no Kyoshu Nihon no Merodi-shu Koto : Yonekawa Toshiko
Koto : Yonekawa Toshiko II
Koto : Tsujimoto Chikatoyo
Shakuhachi : Suginuma Sachio
Koto : Yonekawa Megumi

Koto no Miryoku - Disk 1 Koto : Yamauchi Kimiko

Melody of Japan - Stillness of Winter Koto : Pro Musica Nipponia
Play ButtonMusic of Japan Koto : Yonekawa Toshiko
Shamisen : Toyohisa Shizuko
This is an arrangement for koto, shamisen and a small orchestra of Western instruments from a popular song under the same title.

The original song of this piece was a popular song named Hakone- bushi which prevailed about at the middle of the 18th century. It was so popular that many different words was put to its melody. "O-Edo Nihonbashi" is the most popular today among them, but not a few different poems are still sung today to the same or slightly changed melody.

"Edo" is the old name for Tokyo. Nihonbashi is a famous bridge in the centre of Edo and is the starting-point all the roads radiating for countries.

The picture, painted by Hiroshige, a famous ukiyoe painter, shows the concourse at the Nihonbashi in the morning.

It was a custom in Edo Period (1600c-1870c) that travellers leaving Edo started from this bridge just after the sun- rise.
Play ButtonShakuhachi - Hamabe No Uta Shakuhachi : Mitsuhashi Kifu
Shakuhachi : Tajima Tadashi
Shakuhachi : Fukuda Teruhisa
Shakuhachi : Fujisaki Shigeyasu