Nursery rhymes

Japanese: nursery rhymes(英語表記)nurseryrhymes
Nursery rhymes

…the name of a collection of traditional British nursery rhymes. In Britain, they are usually called "nursery rhymes". The name is said to have originated from the collection of nursery rhymes "Mother Goose's Melody" published by John Newbery around 1765 (the title may have been influenced by the subtitle of the collection of nursery rhymes by C. Perrault published in France in 1697, "Contes de ma mère l'Oye").

From "Children's Songs"

… [Harumi Koshiba]
[Children's songs from other countries]
Game songs passed down in the world of children are not limited to Japanese nursery rhymes, but are a phenomenon commonly seen among many peoples around the world. Generally, they are called game songs, game-rhymes, or singing games in English, but they do not always involve specific games, and nursery rhymes that are simply catchy chants are of course considered a type of nursery rhyme. Mother Goose is a typical example, and Jack and Jill and London Bridge is Falling Down can be said to be representative British nursery rhymes.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "nursery rhymes" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…イギリスの伝承童謡集の俗称。イギリスでは〈nursery rhymes(子ども部屋の歌)〉と呼ぶのが普通。この俗称の起源は,1765年ころニューベリーJohn Newberyが出版した童謡集《がちょうおばさんの歌Mother Goose’s Melody》にあるといわれる(この書名には1697年に出版されたフランスのC.ペローの童謡集の副題《がちょうおばさんの物語Contes de ma mère l’Oye》の影響があるだろう)。…

【わらべうた】より

…【小柴 はるみ】
[諸外国のわらべうた]
 子どもの世界で伝承される遊戯歌は,日本のわらべうたに限らず広く世界の諸民族の間に共通してみられる現象である。一般的には,英語でgame songs,game‐rhymesまたはsinging gamesと呼ばれるものがそれにあたるが,つねに特定の遊戯が伴うとは限らず,もっぱら語呂のよいとなえ歌nursery rhymesも,むろんわらべうたの一種とみなされる。《マザーグース》はその典型的なもので,〈ジャックとジル〉や〈ロンドン橋が落っこちる〉などはイギリスの代表的なわらべうたということができる。…

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