Seasonal Work Song - Kisetsu Rosakuka

For example, rice planting songs, barley pounding songs, wood cutting songs, earth pounding songs, tea picking songs, and mountain songs belong to the former, while cow-chasing songs, chest songs, and palanquin-carrying songs belong to the latter. Among the songs of labor, there are "seasonal labor songs" sung by seasonal laborers employed for a certain period of time, such as sake brewing songs, wood cutting songs, oil pressing songs, and lacquer pounding songs, and many of these songs are relatively common, but some, such as the "sake brewing song," have several songs according to the steps of the work. Agar shop songs, wood cutting songs, paper making songs, tea mountain songs, and indigo polishing songs are also sung in different ways depending on the steps of the work.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "seasonal labor songs" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…たとえば田植歌や麦搗歌（むぎつきうた），木挽歌（こびきうた），地搗歌（じつきうた），茶摘歌（ちやつみうた），山歌等は前者に，牛追歌，長持歌，駕籠舁歌（かごかきうた）の類は後者に属する。労作歌の中には酒造歌，木挽歌，油絞り歌，漆搔歌（うるしかきうた）等のように，ある一定の期間だけ雇われる季節労働者が歌う〈季節労作歌〉があり，これは比較的共通する歌が多いが，中には〈酒造歌〉のように作業の工程に従って数種の歌があるものもある。寒天屋歌，木おろし歌，紙漉歌（かみすきうた），茶山歌，藍（あい）こなし歌等も，その作業の手順によって異なる歌が歌われる。…

※「季節労作歌」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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