Furusato (children's song)

This article is about a 1914 Japanese children's song. For the Morning Musume song, see Furusato (Morning Musume song).

"Furusato"
Song by Teiichi Okano and Tatsuyuki Takano
GenreChildren's music
Composer(s)Teiichi Okano
Lyricist(s)Tatsuyuki Takano [ja]

Furusato (Japanese: 故郷, 'old home' or 'hometown') is a well-known 1914 Japanese children's song, with music by Teiichi Okano and lyrics by Tatsuyuki Takano [ja].

Although Takano's hometown was Nakano, Nagano, his lyrics do not seem to refer to a particular place.[1] Instead, they describe a person who is working in a distant land, expressing his feelings of nostalgia for the hills and fields of his childhood home.

  1. ^ "100 years of Furusato", Sankei Shinbun, p1, Oct 9, 2014