#Kayōkyoku

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Asami Kobayashi (小林麻美) mini poster. Scanned by me.

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Tracklist:

えいさ [Eisa] • 東京漂流 [Tokyo Hyoryuu] • アルゼンチン逃避行 [Argentine Touhikou] • 試練 [Shiren] • 晴れ舞台 [Hare Butai] • キョーコとタカシ [Kyoto to Takashi] • 流浪の街 [Rurou no Machi] • 大阪ジュエル [Osaka Jewel] • 菜の花畑でつかまえて [Na no Hana Hata Detsukamaete] • 海雪 [Umiyuki]

Submitter's Note: Jero (ジェロ) is an American enka singer of African-American and Japanese descent who is the first black enka singer in Japanese music history. (paraphased from his wikipedia article)

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What are your favourite songs in Japanese?? I would really like to know some good ones! 😊

this is such a cute ask thank you!

here's my top ten recommendations, a lot of them are quite old because of my dad (i'll star my dad's favourites). also i think a lot of the classics go unnoticed sometimes outside of japan:

前川清の 「長崎は今日も雨だった」 — "nagasaki wa kyō mo ame datta" by maekawa kiyoshi. (it was raining again in nagasaki today)*

山崎ハコの 「さすらい」 — "sasurai" by yamasaki hako. (wandering)

BEGINの 「島人ぬ宝」 — "shimanchu nu takara" by BEGIN. (the islander's treasure, this is an okinawan song and i highly recommend it)*

オモイノタケの 「産声」 — "ubugoe" by omoinotake. (first cry, this is from a tv show)

石野真子の 「私のしあわせ」 — "watashi no shiawase" by ishino mako. (my happiness)*

坂本九の 「上を向いて歩こう」 — "ue o muite arukō" by sakamoto kyū. (i look up as i walk, in english i think this is sometimes known as 'sukiyaki', it's about looking up so that his tears won't fall)

坂本九の 「見上げてごらん夜の星を」 — "miagete goran yoru no hoshi o" also by sakamoto kyū. (look up at the stars in the night)*

松原みきの 「真夜中のドア〜Stay with Me」 — "mayonaka no doa / stay with me" by matsubara miki. (midnight's door / stay with me, honestly how could this absolutely banger not be on the list)*

菅田将暉の 「まちがいさがし」 — "machigai sagashi" by suda masaki. (spot the difference)

こっこの 「走る体」 — "hashiru karada" by cocco. (running body)

obligatory: sakamoto kyū's "ue o muite arukō" was the only japanese song to ever reach number one in the U.S, it stayed in number one for three weeks. his music isn't necessarily for everyone, he's a "crooner" but he wrote some really beautiful songs that i think everyone would like.

there's some modern enka in the list as well which is kind of "traditional". some kayōkyoku (the base of j-pop), "city pop" (シティ・ポップ). a bit of everything.

if you like city pop specifically then i'd say check out takeuchi mariya (plastic love is a good place to start and is one of my dad's favourites), matsubara miki (there's one in the list), and ohashi junko (telephone number), those are their most popular songs in the west and you can work your way down. there are so many more but they're the ones you'll probably know already.

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Meiko Kaji - Urami bushi

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Okay so in mash they often play Japanese covers of American songs right? This was a super common thing in Japan at the same, genres like enka and kayōkyoku were mixing traditional Japanese music with Jazz, Latin and Country music, often covering songs in a mix of Japanese and English or Spanish (occasionally there is a bit of German).

Except China was doing the same thing with shídàiqǔ music (Jyut Jyu Si Doi Kuk in Cantonese, apparently). Obviously China was considered the enemy but we know that half the unit doesn't care about Cold War politics and they often deal with the black market.

What I am suggesting is that they should have gotten some Chinese records to listen to. And because continuity is often ignored on the show anyway it should have been specifically this cover from the opera Carmen.

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【KEIKO’s Room】#36

We finally get a new season of Keiko’s cover collection. Be sure to tune in! Wonder what song she will be covering? 

悪女 (Akujo) by Miyuki Nakajima (中島美雪; 中島みゆき) 悪女 {Akujo} Miyuki Nakajima 1981  (written) 悪女 {Akujo} Miki Hirayama 1990 (released) Oh! How I missed these covers! Her vocals are smooth as butter. So good! I just love being introduced to Kayōkyoku classics. Definitely gravitate a lot towards that genre. 

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"Keiko’s Room #36" Cover Collection - Akujo by Miyuki Nakajima 

A new entry in my cover collection for the first time in a long while! I sang "Akujo" with impressive lyrics from the 1980s. I really liked the overall taste and vibe of the song. And there are a lot of lines that I adore. For example, the name “Mariko” which pops up right at the beginning of the song left a strong impression. It’s a rare name these days. I don’t really go to the cinema anymore so I've completely forgotten about the fact that movie screenings used to start really late at night on Saturdays. I usually finished watching a film at around 1:00 am. I remember watching "Arrietty" in the middle of the night once. I guess there were times when I was sitting in a daze in random hotel lobbies or on fashionable sofas in department stores → Probably being a huge nuisance.

While the song is reflecting the 1980s, a lot of things still ring true today and overlap with modern sceneries. It was fun imagining all these moments while singing the song. A woman who refuses to become bad girl is very endearing, isn't she? I want to be a bad girl though *wry smile*

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Anyone ever listen to Reiko Ike's extremely horny kayōkyoku album? It's pretty much lounge with some moaning over it and is responsible for one of my favorite RYM reviews ever

Reiko Ike in the 70s

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Hello! This is my second post for @hwsasiaweek ! …And it’s just a repost! Yaaaaaayyyy!

But yeah, I thought this story was perfect for Day 3: Folklore/Legends/Myths. This one stars Japan, my country!

I was planning to get another third fic out for this event, and I decided that until then I could just repost this old thing I wrote as part of a compilation. Hopefully it still holds up. Hopefully.

Alt-talia: Child of The Soil

Young Kiku loved exploring the mountains outside Asuka.

Here, the gods lived. It was the spirits’ domain, where they allowed the young boy to use as his playground; while he was already centuries old, he still explored it with innocent wonder befitting his eight-year-old appearance, but with a hint of familiarity. After all, this island’s forests were, in a way, his element as well.

They knew who he really was; the young personification of Yamato. Even without telling them, they knew. The spirits and gods themselves rarely, if ever, presented themselves directly to him, but he could feel their presence in the air among the familiar cries of insects, sometimes even their whispers to him.

He made his way to a less wooded, grassy clearing; the longest grasses, the types used by the people of Asuka to thatch roofs, were long enough for the little boy to disappear into.

It was then he noticed what seemed to be a slender, scaly tail poking out of the grasses.

Then, something started... rolling? Yes, rolling, and disappeared into the grass.

“Huh?”

Curious, the young boy trailed the mysterious creature as it made its way through the overgrown grass, trying not to rustle the grass too loudly or lose track of it.

Finally, the creature rolled towards a meadow where the grass was shorter in front of raised ground, and unfurled itself. From behind the grass, he observed it; it was a shaku* long… snake? But not just any snake; one with a strangely broad, almost flat midsection, its thin neck sticking out from one side and its tail out the other.

It was somewhat dopey-looking, yet he felt drawn to the strange creature, though he didn’t know why. It seemed strangely… familiar.

“Hello there?”

Kiku made a few small steps out of the tall grass, and just when he was over it, the snake bunched up like an inchworm, and…

It jumped.

The snake jumped up, several times his height, over the ledge.

His jaw dropped, aghast, stumbling back, almost falling back into the tall grass.

Then, it briefly stopped, looking back at him. It let out a high pitched “Chiii!” before crawling into the tall grass above.

“…Nozuchi?”

That was all he could whisper.

Was that…

That day, among the ringing melodies of Suzumushi crickets, Yamato thought he had met the grass spirit.

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Kiku didn’t know if he had imagined what happened that day.

Since that day, it - maybe goddess, maybe spirit, maybe mundane creature - and how it had looked back at him, as if asking him to find it, remained at the back of his mind. Its name changed over the years, as did what he believed its identity to be. However, eventually, only a few villagers shared his knowledge of the snake anymore.

Until, over a millennia later, a certain children’s book featured a hunt for that same creature, and as unreliable as his distant childhood memories could be, the memory returned to him clear as day.

And today, in his new Third-Generation Nissan Datsun Sunny as kayōkyoku and New Music played on the radio, his spirits moderately high from fresh economic growth, he had returned to that same place where he thought he had that encounter over a millennia before.

A small crowd had gathered there, mainly families, mothers and fathers holding lunches and cages, children with butterfly nets bragging about how they would be the first to catch the coveted snake. Some people looked at him in puzzlement, his lack of any children, girlfriend, or even friends making him very conspicuous among the gathering.

The place had changed quite a lot, but in some ways, it was still as it had always been. However, while it, of course, was of more significance to him than any other random mountain, forest, or village would be, he had far moved past these mountains, or Asuka, a long time ago, ultimately just one past home out of many. And it wasn’t even his first at that, though his earliest memories were almost entirely lost to the ether. Childhood to nations was, unlike for humans, not necessarily worth any more, nor any more notable than any other era they had been alive. And to him, Nara, his other childhood home two more moves later, was a much more important factor in who he was now than Asuka; even today, Nara remained a major city, and its name had come to encompass the entire prefecture. Yet here he was, back after all these years.

The group dispersed, and Kiku set off on his own as well.

He didn’t remember much about the place, and even if he did, physically every tree back then was no longer here; so he searched without direction, making sure as to minimize the sound of his steps as they met the ground.

Looking at his watch to see it was noon and feeling he could use a bite at the moment, he sat down on a tree stump in a small clearing for lunch.

It was then he saw a thin, familiar scaly tail poking out of the brush. One that seemed to suddenly widen.

Immediately, a small head popped out of the grass, biting its tail. And rolled.

He immediately put down his rice ball, almost choking on it, and immediately ran.

But there was no rustling, even if Kiku was too intent on following its apparent path to notice.

Soon, he found himself almost crashing into the face of a ledge, just higher than his height.

He looked around, up at the ledge, and sighed frustratedly.

It seemed the Tsuchinoko had evaded Japan again.

In a small clearing in a forest in Nara prefecture, a faint “Chiii!” mixed in with the ringing melodies of Suzumushi crickets.

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Shaku: An old Japanese unit of measure. Coincidentally, it’s roughly about a foot.

“Child of the soil” is a literal translation of “tsuchinoko”.

So yeah, if any of you are familiar with the Pokémon Dunsparce, this is what it’s based on! I wanted to share our little snek with the world.

The tsuchinoko is a Japanese cryptid that people often report sightings of but no one has truly found. I looked into it, and apparently there have been records of tsuchinoko-like creatures since as early as the Jomon period. In the Kojiki, they are said to be field/grass kami. So I decided that Japan should encounter it a bit before the Kojiki was written, in the Asuka period.

Apparently, they only became widely known to the rest of Japan in the 70s, after a book about tsuchinoko hunting was published, and it truly became a nationwide fascination when a manga about tsuchinoko was published. So it seems to have been this regional thing that became part of the wider folklore. But it truly has been with Japan since the very beginning.

Hope you enjoyed!

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Hi?

Heyo, I’m Weston.. uhm.. i’m not good at this stuff so.. here’s a list i guess?

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Name: Weston, most peeps call me West! my other nicknames are Punkin and Patho :]

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Pronouns: They/Them. He/Him. 

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Important to know: I am autistic, shy, awkward, anxious and have the memory of a bee.. but, i think i’m nice!

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Hobbies & interests: Digital art, Character design, Toy collecting, Rock collecting, Paleontology, Evolutionary biology, Marine biology, Anything 00s related, Animals (all kinds, including arthropods! and extinct animals!) Nostalgia blogging, Photography, Horror, Thrifting, Plushy Collecting.

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Favorite games: The Sims (mostly the sims 4 cuz it’s the easiest to run X﹏X) NITW, Wobble Dogs, Spore, Pokemon, Webkinz, Moshi Monsters, Animal Jam, Digital: A Love Story, Any lps games lol, Roblox, Minecraft, Acnh, LSD: Dream Emulator.

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Favorite Shows & Movies: Treasure Planet, Lilo & Stitch, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Ponyo, Hellraiser, Beetlejuice, My Neighbor Totoro, Kill Me Baby, Mlp (G3 and G4), Lps webisodes, Bluey, Anything Sanrio related, Bob’s burgers, Wander Over Yonder, Superjail! metalocalypse.

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Favorite music artists: Alex G, Far Caspian, Bulldog Eyes, Hellogoodbye, Cavetown, Duster, Teen S*icide, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Literally every vocaloid artists, Brother Android, Crying, Machine Girl, Weezer, Rory in early 20s, Modest Mouse, SOAD, Alice Gas, Akiko Wada, Yameii Online, Nona Reeves, Snail Mail, Snowmine, Fox Academy, Hippo Campus, Starry Cat, Good Morning, True Widow, The Smiths, Toshiki Kadomatsu.

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Favorite Music Genres: … All.. lol.. but here’s what i’m currently listening to the most; Alternative/Indie, Folktronica, Indie rock, Bedroom-Pop, Dream Pop, Indie Pop, Shoegaze, Emo Pop, Pop Punk, Electropop, Space Rock, J-pop, Electronica, Dubstep, Synth-pop, Bubblegum Pop, Chiptune, Digital hardcore, Breakcore, Hyperpop, Alternative Metal, Midwest Emo, Hard rock, Nu metal, Happy Hardcore, Kayōkyoku, Shibuya-kei, Bubblegum Bass, City Pop, Experimental indie, Indie Folk, Stoner rock, Occult rock, Slowcore, Jazz fusion, Lo-Fi, Nightcore & Daycore (if that counts?).

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Other stuff i like: Jerma…, 00s Toys, Nature, The beach, Mythology, Cryptids, Aesthetics, Sparkly stuff.

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Kins: Sprinkles (Blue's Clues), Socks (Bluey), Bluey, Emoshy, Derpy, Screwball, Minty (Mlp), Yasuna Oribe (Kill Me Baby), Cinnamoroll, Mae (NITW), Lps #2033, Katsuma (Moshi Monsters), Cowplant (The Sims.. dont ask lololol), Toki Wartooth, Gir (you know where he's from ...)

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Comfort Characters: Wander (WOY), Lord Stingray (Superjail!), Jim Hawkin & John Silver (Treasure Planet), Kat (Kid vs Kat).

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My Tags:  #Punkin pics, #Punkin post, #Punkin txt, #Punkincore, #Punkin art.

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Where to find me?: Tumblr (ur already here stoopid), Toyhouse, Deviant Art.

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Need to contact me?: Discord: pathologiskull

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Tracklist:

星の流れに (Hoshi no Nagare ni) (The Flow of The Star) • 東京の花売娘 (Tokyo no Hanauri Musume) (Flower Girl in Tokyo) • アカシアの雨がやむとき (Akashia no Ame ga Yamutoki) (The Rain Stops in Acacias) • バージンブルース (Virgin Blues) • リボンの騎士 (Ribon no Kishi) (Princess Knight) • 夜が明けて (Yo ga Akete) (Dawn)

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Maximal Kayōkyoku

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橋幸夫*, 和田弘とマヒナ・スターズ* - 君のひたいに光る汗 / 愛することから始めよう (7", Single)

Vinyl(VG) Picture Cover(VG) / コンディション　盤 : Very Good (VG) コンディション　ジャケット : Very Good (VG) コンディションの表記について　  [ M > M- > VG+ > VG > G+ > G > F > P ] レーベル : Victor – SV-149 フォーマット : Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM 生産国 : Japan ���売年 : 1964 第19回芸術祭参加 ジャンル : Jazz, Pop スタイル : Kayōkyoku   収録曲 :  A. Yukio Hashi – 君のひたいに光る汗 3:10B. Hiroshi Wada & Mahina Stars – 愛することから始めよう 3:30       Matrix / Runout 151 VEY-840Matrix /…

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Here is your random song from my library today~. I hope you enjoy this Kayōkyoku hit~ 😘💜