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Katyusha's Song

Katyusha's Song

1914 song by Nakayama Shimpei

For the Russian song, see Katyusha (song).

Katyusha's Song, or "Song of Katyusha"[3] (Japanese language:カチューシャの唄, Kachūsha no Uta[4]) is a Japanese song, which was highly popular in early 20th century Japan. It was composed in the major pentatonic scale by Shinpei Nakayama with lyrics by Soeda Azenbō [ja].[5] The song was sung by Matsui Sumako in a dramatization of Leo Tolstoy's 1899 novel Resurrection,[6] first put on stage in 1914 in Tokyo. [7]

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Influences

Katyusha's song became a national hit in Japan from 1913 onwards,[8] selling 27,000 copies[9] and was taken on by street corner musicians throughout the Japanese empire. It is considered by some music historians as the first example of modern Japanese popular music.[10]

  • Tsuchitori, Toshiyuki. "Soeda Azenbō's Katyusha". YouTube. Retrieved 21 January 2022.

References

  1. [1]
    Toru Mitsui (17 July 2014). Made in Japan: Studies in Popular Music. Routledge. pp. 5–. ISBN 978-1-135-95534-2.
  2. [2]
    Shunsuke Tsurumi (18 October 2010). A Cultural History of Postwar Japan: 1945-1980. Routledge. pp. 105–. ISBN 978-1-136-91766-0.
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    Yukiko Koshiro (10 May 2013). Imperial Eclipse: Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945. Cornell University Press. pp. 62–. ISBN 978-0-8014-6775-2.
  4. [4]
    Patrick M. Patterson (15 October 2018). Music and Words: Producing Popular Songs in Modern Japan, 1887–1952. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 25–. ISBN 978-1-4985-5036-9.
  5. [5]
    Nakayama Shinpei Archived 2009-07-12 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. [6]
    Hiromu Nagahara (10 April 2017). Tokyo Boogie-Woogie. Harvard University Press. pp. 30–. ISBN 978-0-674-97169-1.
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    Anthony V. Liman (2008). Ibuse Masuji: A Century Remembered. Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. ISBN 978-80-246-1452-6.
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    Japan on Stage: Japanese Concepts of Beauty As Shown in the Traditional Theatre. 3A Corporation. 1990. ISBN 978-4-906224-62-3.
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    The Journal of Japanese Studies. Society for Japanese Studies. 2003.
  10. [10]
    "Music - Reflection of traditions from the East and West" Archived 2008-11-19 at the Wayback Machine. Web-Japan, Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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