Min'yō (民謡), Nihon min'yō, Japanese min'yō or Japanese folk music is a genre of traditional Japanese music. Many min'yō are connected to forms of work...

but in min'yō, they are often included as parts of choruses. There are many kakegoe, though they vary from region to region. In Okinawa Min'yō, for example...

a Japanese musical group that reworks traditional Japanese folk songs (min'yō) with arrangements inspired by various international music genres, including...

rhymes and children's songs. "New min'yō" (新民謡, shin min'yō), composed in the style of traditional Okinawan min'yō, have been written by several contemporary...

the term min'yo (folk songs), a term which can be found in Shigeno Yūkō's Amami Ōshima minzoku-shi (1927), Kazari Eikichi's Amami Ōshima min'yō taikan (1933)...

Sōran Bushi (ソーラン節) is one of the most famous traditional songs and dance (min'yō) in Japan. It is a sea shanty that is said to have been first sung by the...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Minyo is Korean and Japanese for folk song. Min'yō (民謡), a style of Japanese accompanied folk singing Minyo (民謠), a style of...

tones" located a fourth apart and containing notes between them, as in the min'yō scale used in folk music, and whose pitches are equivalent to the second...

(1911–1979), evolved a new style of playing, based on traditional folk songs (min'yō) but involving much improvisation and flashy fingerwork. This style – now...

1970 "Shin-min'yō undō no ongakushi-teki igi". Engekigaku 11:1–29. (Study of the "new folk song" movement) Matsuno Takeo 1935 "Tsugaru min'yō-shi". Kyōdo-shi...