Rice planting story - Tauezoushi

Japanese: 田植草紙 - たうえぞうし

A collection of songs. 1 volume. A manuscript of rice planting songs from the Chugoku Mountains. There are many such manuscripts in this region, but this one was discovered in Shinjo, Oasa-cho, Yamagata-gun, Hiroshima Prefecture, and was included in the 5th volume of the Japanese Song Collection in 1928, gradually gaining recognition as one of Japan's leading rice planting song collections. The lyrics show a strong influence from medieval short songs, and it is generally believed that the song was created at the end of the Muromachi period. However, it was copied in the Edo period, and the Rice Planting Story itself is said to have been a copy made around the Bunka and Bunsei periods. Each song is composed of about five lines, centered around the dialogue between the lead song and the young girl, and this book arranges over 130 such songs into 12 parts, four each for morning, afternoon, and evening, making it the most skillful arrangement of songs to be sung on a single day of rice planting.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

歌謡集。1巻。中国山地の田植歌を書き留めた写本。当地方にはこの種の写本がおびただしいが，これは広島県山県郡大朝町新庄で発見され，1928年に《日本歌謡集成》第5巻に収められ，しだいに日本を代表する田植歌集としての評価を得るにいたった。歌詞には中世小歌の強い影響がみられ，歌謡としての成立は室町末期とするのが通説。ただし写本になったのは江戸時代で，《田植草紙》そのものは文化･文政ころの写しという。1首の歌は音頭と早乙女の掛合を中心にほぼ5行で構成されるが，そうした歌の130首余りを朝･昼･晩の各4番，計12番に分けて配列し，田植の1日に歌うべき歌をもっとも巧みに整序したのが本書である。

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