Songs from Hiroshima?

Hi Brian,

Not sure how your Japanese is, but this website lists the minyo from Hiroshima prefecture:


http://www.hiroshima-bunka.jp/modules/folksong23/

I never thought about it before, but Hiroshima doesn't get a lot of recognition for min'you. I couldn't think of a single song from the prefecture off hand, but two songs pop up in most of my min'you anthologies: "Atsumori san" and "Mihara Yassa". I've got very basic sheet music for those and two others - "Ondo funa uta" and "Hiroshima Sakazukuri uta" - that seem like they'd be nice shakuhachi pieces. I'm not sure what the policy here is on this sort of thing - should I post the links?

I need some songs because I'm supposed to do a new composition based on melodies from the area.

Ah, here are a few　YouTube clips to get you started, then.
No one seems to have posted any studio recordings, but you can get the melody from these anyway:

"Mihara yassa" festival clip with music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgEtFac7Ya8&feature=related

"Ondo no funa uta" (Boat song of Ondo):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkuJJ77x-Yo&feature=related

"Ondo no funa uta" pvc shakuhachi version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2vWAV2gTaY&feature=related

"Hiroshima kiyari ondo" (Hiroshima timber haulers' chorus):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5bPfgrU8H0

"Tomo no Ura taiami tairyou bushi" (Tomo Bay seabream net fisher's big catch song):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMbv4CZw_OE

Here's the Tomo bay seabream fishers in action, kind of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4qjuu9BVek&feature=related

Thanks! I don't need much, just some material to build on.

Does anybody know if any of the komuso temples and related honkyoku were in or near Hiroshima?