"Kimigayo" (folk song) - Kimigayo

...This is a celebratory song sung in the entire Miyagi Prefecture, Ichinoseki and Mizusawa areas of Iwate Prefecture, northern Fukushima Prefecture and Aizu, and Yonezawa areas of Yamagata Prefecture, all of which were formerly part of the Sendai Domain. In the Sendai region, it is also called the "Kimigayo," and at the beginning of a celebratory party, everyone sits upright and claps their hands solemnly, singing the following three poems (a set of three scrolls). In the Yonezawa and Aizu regions, it is a set of two scrolls....

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Kimigayo" (folk song) is listed below.

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…旧仙台藩の領内である宮城県全部と岩手県一関･水沢地方，福島県北部･会津および山形県米沢地方に行われる祝歌。仙台地方では《君が代》の異称もあるように，必ず祝宴の劈頭，全員が正座して厳かに手拍子を打って〈さんさ時雨か萱野の雨か　音もせで来てぬれかかる〉以下3首(三幅一対)を斉唱する。米沢･会津地方では二幅一対である。…

※「《君が代》（民謡）」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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