The moon over its eight-hundred-eight bridges knows my guts. Shogi pieces are easily blown away by a breath. Your browser does not support the audio element. "Blue mountains" was somehow among those standard folk-dance numbers and for many one-time boys and girls its melody is linked to bittersweet memories of their adolescence. So, virtually all Japanese danced Mayim-Mayim, Oklahoma Mixer (Turkey in the straw) and Jenkka in their school days. This habit was brought in by the American occupation army and became established in the Japanese school life. I mean, all post war generations have experiences to dance with Euro-American folk songs. I suspect, on the other hand, if the popularity of this song might have another reason. This result is understandable, because this is a song of departure from the old world - in particular you can see it in the second strophe - and everybody saw in the post-war Japan a promising future which was symbolized by blue mountains and their shining peaks. " Aoi Sanmyaku" (Blue mountains) from 1949 is indeed the most popular Japanese song according to various researches. Such a song must have heeled the mental wounds of the people after the long-lasting war. The song is a bit sentimental, but its lyrics hint feelings of love, which was forbidden during the war time. Which was the theme song of the film "Breeze" released on 10th October 1945, only a month after the Japan's formal capitulation. However, as far back as I can remember, I was still able to hear often hit songs from the immediate postwar time, for example " Ringo no Uta" (Apple song), Therefore, I of course do not know real-time the songs released in the first post-war years.
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I was born in 1950, five years after the end of WWII.