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Japanese: 記紀歌謡 - ききかよう

A general term for songs found in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki. There are about 200 songs, excluding duplicates. They are the oldest form of Japanese songs from the Manyo period and earlier. In the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, many of the songs are linked to stories and tales, but they were probably originally songs that were passed down independently with some kind of origin and were incorporated into the stories by the compilers of the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki. They sing cheerfully and simply about all aspects of ancient people's lives, including love, battle, hunting, and rituals. They were written by the people together, rather than by individuals, and have the character of a collective song. Many of them are in the form of short poems, tanka, sentou-ka, and choka, but they show a stage before they were fixed into a fixed form. They are noted as the origin of Japanese literature, and because they are written in Manyo-gana, each character being a separate sound, they are also valuable in Japanese language research for learning about ancient phonology, grammar, and words.
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Japanese:

《古事記》《日本書紀》所載の歌謡の総称。重複を除いて約200首。万葉時代およびそれ以前の日本の歌の最も古い姿をとどめる。記紀では多く物語・説話と結びついているが，もとはなんらかの由緒をともないつつ独立して伝承されていた歌が，記紀の編纂(へんさん)者によって物語にとりこまれたものだろう。恋愛，戦闘，狩猟，祭祀など古代人の生活全般が明るく素朴にうたわれている。個人の創作というより民衆共同の作であり，集団歌謡の性格が強い。形は片歌，短歌，旋頭歌(せどうか)，長歌などに当たるものが多いが，定型に固定する以前の段階を示す。日本文学の源流として注目され，また一字一音の万葉仮名で記されているため，古代の音韻，語法，単語を知るうえで国語学研究上の価値も高い。
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