kokiriko bushi - original japanese folk song performance

[taimeido]

This song has been spread to the Gokayama area (UNESCO World Heritage) in Japan for about 1000 years.

They wear clothes that had become popular 1000 years ago.

Ｌook at a my channel about a long version.

[MrDanielleQ]

what do ya all wanna say? no one know how can this song similiar to some brazillian tribes or when this song was created! INCLUDE YOU!

[kurobecca]

I think "kokiriko" is people cut the trees.

[Figurate86]

It's stunting hown this song is similar to those performed by some Brazilian tribes of Native American Indians... except for the instruments, you could swear this comes from some Xavante or Kamayura people... I agree with the interpretation of a general mongoloid culture, as ancient as the first Siberians who crossed Bering bridge and reached Patagon...

[Itachiashtray]

The song and the performance are beautiful, it does remind me of native american songs

[TheRobocopter]

:/ Not quite a breakdancing skeleton puppet is it?...

[IlkenGirth]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! TAKE OFF YOUR SHIRT! FUCK YEAH!

[Hikikomori013]

It sounds similar to Native American music because it comes from a similar source. Voice, percussion and shared experience makes for similar music. As they say, a farmer is a farmer wherever you are, so a farmer's working song will sound similar in any country. This looks like it might be a harvest song to sing as they cut the rice.

[videochemist]

The reason ancient traditional music sounds similar from different regions is because the music comes from inside us. The rhythm is found regulating the inner working of our internal organs. Even our DNA can be decoded into musical rhythm. Truly music which comes from the heart.

[Hekamaat]

Pity it's so short...

The singers of the waulking songs of Scotland or the Sean Nos-singers of Ireland

would feel at home with this kind of music, i think:

Music which comes from the heart...

[dinenkoji]

Search "GOKAYAMA FOLK MUSIC"

[cebal101]

Can someone please translate the lyrics? If not, does anyone know where I can find them? This is absolutely beautiful music. I agree with other posts that it is similar to Native American music. I also find it very different. Either way it is beautiful and makes me want to learn more of the culture.

I would suggest that rather than discuss the sometimes heated arguments of our origins we celebrate our similarities and the beauty of our music.

[seputum0]

they look like pyramid head from silent hill.

[iwannalearnjapanese]

lol

[Gaaraloverr1]

Not only is the song peaceful, the dance is too. I only wish I knew Japanese *hums with beat*

[Hikikomori013]

This is my favorite version so far.

Omodaka's version was my introduction to this melody, and it was a lot of fun, but this has real heart to it.

I wonder if this dates back to the Jomon culture. It has the feel of an incredibly ancient song.

[jeppahorse]

Other native music with modern twist: "Intrigue - Orbina" Samii-song (Norway)

[Miyedo]

I am a Dakota and I would love to be apart of the Asian people. We are both beautiful people. Some people in Korea claimed at one point that they came from here in North America. But of course none of that really matters. What matters is that we keep our culture alive and not lose it. Blessing to the Asian Nations from the Dakota Nation.

[lipton3d]

I love video

[trekfancvg]

this is great!! any way to get more of this? THANKS for posting this!

It's weird how similar this is to REALLY old Korean folk dance/music as well as various First American things

[wasabij]

I don't think posting the similarities between older asian and native american music styles deserved thumbs down.

I think it's something noteworthy, if not worthy of a lot more research.

Since someone mentioned the BST: did you know that the further south from the Bering Strait's, along the Americas, the higher the propensity for people to have ADD and ADHD was found, with the highest densities in the tip of South America. The journal I read made theories regarding a link to the BST.

[lilhaku]

wow~~~~

[HailTheOri]

I can't help but notice the almost exact likeness of native american dance and music to this.

[lynth]

That may be because Asian and Native American people have the same ancestors.

Human spread from Africa to Asia/Europe and from Asia to America through connections between the continents that don't exist anymore.

The Native Americans evolved from those people. (That's also the reason why Native Americans look more Asian than European or African)

[lynth]

it's exactly like you say, so why is it nonsense?

they are similar because they have the same roots.

i can't remember to ever have read about ancient scandinavian, egyptian or european people doing those kinds of dances.

african and australian people also do completely different dances.

[anak1]

What about mask dances? Essential in shamanistic ritual in both East Asia and parts of Africa?

The truth is most of the people on Earth before the modern era had similar lifestyles and similar belief systems: regardless of racial heritage. Most of the world's population were hunters, farmers or fishermen who seldom travelled beyond their villages, and practised shamanism.. and so the subject of dances and songs would have revolved around that sort of life. Similarities are inevitable..

[cauliflowerjones]

Don't be an idiot.

[onecooldan]

Read about the problems with Bering Strait theory on Wikipedia. It's not as clear cut as one might think, and is still a subject in great need of research.

[karmacop911]

@HailTheOri native americans came from asia

[britters220]

@HailTheOri

if europe didnt "invate" the americas, im sure that their belief system would have evolved further into something like this.

[OriginalHypnotika]

neat.. how did you get your hands on this? is there more to it? ^_^