Weaving Song - Hataoriuta

Japanese: 機織歌 - はたおりうた

A folk song, a labor song sung while weaving. In the old days, women would weave at home on an izaribata (jibata) loom, where they would sit on the ground and move the shuttle for threading the weft from side to side, making a chankara-chankara sound. Weaving songs were mainly sung as work songs at that time. As the weaving song from Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, in the Riyoshu, says, "When I look at the person weaving on the loom, his hands are empty and the weaving is wrong. The woman next to me is standing there looking at me. She looks at me and laughs. I wish the woman who is laughing was gone. I can't see her shadow on the road any more.", it was originally a long, slow song.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

民謡で，機を織るときに歌う労作歌。古くは〈居坐機（いざりばた）(地機（じばた）)〉という，女子が尻を地面につけて，チャンカラチャンカラと横糸を通す杼（ひ）を左右にさし入れる機で，家の中で織っていたが，機織歌はおもにそのころの作業歌として歌われた。《俚謡集》に愛媛県松山地方の機織歌として，〈機を織り織り道の人見れば　お手はお留守で縞織り違え　隣のおばさんそこに立って見より　わしの顔見てへらへら笑う　笑うおばさんあなうとましや　道のあの人ははや影見えん〉とあるように，元来は長い調子の緩やかな歌であった。

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