List of top 100 songs in Japan
The list of Japan's top 100 songs ( Japanese 日本 の 歌 百 選 , Nihon no Uta Hyakusen ) includes a selection of 100 children's songs and hits ( Kayōkyoku ), which were published in 2006 by the Office for Cultural Affairs in cooperation with the Japan-wide Conference of the "Parent-Teacher Association" (PTA), an institution comparable to the Federal Parents' Council , was put together.
A committee selected a selection of 100 songs from a collection of 895 songs, which were finalized on December 15, 2006. The announcement was made during a concert on January 14, 2007 in the New National Theater in Tokyo .
List of songs
Although originally only songs with Japanese lyrics should be available, the collection now includes some popular songs with lyrics translated into Japanese. In addition, contrary to its name, the following selection contains a nominal 101 songs.
Title in Kanji |
Transcription | Year of origin |
Copywriter | composer | annotation |
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仰 げ ば 尊 し | Aogeba tōtoshi | 1884 | Ōtsuki Fumihiko , Satomi Tadashi , Kabe Iwao | HND | |
赤 い 靴 | Akai kutsu | 1922 | Ujō Noguchi | Nagayo Motoori | |
赤 と ん ぼ | Akatonbo | 1927 | Rofu Miki | Kosaku Yamada | |
朝 は ど こ か ら | Asa wa doko kara | 1946 | Masaru Mori | Kunihiko Hashimoto | |
あ の 町 こ の 町 | Ano machi kono machi | 1924 | Ujō Noguchi | Shinpei Nakayama | |
あ め ふ り | Amefuri | 1925 | Hakushu Kitahara | Shinpei Nakayama | |
雨 降 り お 月 さ ん | Amefuri otsukisan | 1925 | Ujō Noguchi | Shinpei Nakayama | |
あ め ふ り く ま の こ | Amefuri kuma no ko | 1962 | Masao Tsurumi | Akira Yuyama | |
い い 日 旅 立 ち | II hi tabidachi | 1978 | Shinji Tanimura | Shinji Tanimura | |
い つ で も 夢 を | Itsudemo yume o | 1962 | Takao Saeki | Tadashi Yoshida | |
犬 の お ま わ り さ ん | Inu no omawarisan | 1960 | Yoshimi Satō | Megumi Ōnaka | |
上 を 向 い て 歩 こ う | Ue o muite arukō | 1961 | Rokusuke egg | Hachidai Nakamura | also known as "Sukiyaki" sung by Kyu Sakamoto |
海 | Umi | 1941 | Ryūha Hayashi | Takeshi Inoue | |
う れ し い ひ な ま つ り | Ureshii hinamatsuri | 1935 | Hachirō Satō | Koyo Kawamura | |
江 戸 子 守 唄 | Edo lullaby | Edo period | Lyricist and composer unknown |
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お う ま | Ouma | 1941 | Ryūha Hayashi | Tsune Matsushima | |
大 き な 栗 の 木 の 下 で | Ōkina kurinoki no shita de | Melody from "Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree" lyricist unknown |
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大 き な 古時 計 | Ōkina furudokei | 1940 | Kōgo Hotomi | Henry Clay Work | Melody from "My Grandfather's Clock" (1876) |
お か あ さ ん | Okaasan | 1954 | Nana Tanaka | Yoshinao Nakada | |
お 正月 | Oshogatsu | 1901 | Kume Higashi | Rentarō Taki | |
お は な し ゆ び さ ん | Ohanashiyubisan | 1962 | Yoshiko Kōyama | Akira Yuyama | |
朧 月夜 | Oborozuki yo | 1914 | Tatsuyuki Takano | Teiichi Okano | |
思 い 出 の ア ル バ ム | Omoide no album | Masuko Toshi | Honda | ||
お も ち ゃ の チ ャ チ ャ チ ャ | Omocha no chachacha | 1962 | Akiyuki Nosaka , Osamu Yoshioka | Nobuyoshi Koshibe | |
か あ さ ん の 歌 | Kaasan no uta | 1954 | Satoshi Kubota | Satoshi Kubota | |
風 | Kaze | 1921 |
Yaso Saijō after Christina Rossetti |
Shin Kusakawa | |
肩 た た き | Kata tataki | 1923 | Yaso Saijō | Shinpei Nakayama | |
か も め の 水兵 さ ん | Kame no Suihei-san | 1937 | Toshiko Takeuchi | Koyo Kawamura | |
か ら た ち の 花 | Karatachi no hana | 1925 | Hakushu Kitahara | Kosaku Yamada | |
川 の 流 れ の よ う に | Kawa no Nagare no Yō ni | 1989 | Yasushi Akimoto | Akira Mitake | |
汽車 | Kisha | 1912 | MEXT | Aira Ōwada | |
汽車 ポ ッ ポ | Kisha poppo | 1938 | Kaoru Fuhara | Shin Kusakawa | |
今日 の 日 は さ よ う な ら | Kyō no hi wa sayōnara | 1966 | Shōichi Kaneko | Shōichi Kaneko | |
靴 が 鳴 る | Kutsu ga naru | 1919 | Katsura Shimizu | Ryutaro Hirota | |
こ い の ぼ り | Koinobori | 1931 | Miyako Kondo | unknown | |
高校 三年 生 | Koko sannensei | 1963 | Toshio Oka | Minoru Endo | |
荒城 の 月 | Kōjō no Tsuki | 1901 | Bansui Doi | Rentarō Taki | |
秋 桜 | Cosmos | 1977 | Masashi Sada | Masashi Sada | sung by Momoe Yamaguchi |
こ の 道 | Kono michi | 1927 | Hakushu Kitahara | Kosaku Yamada | |
こ ん に ち は 赤 ち ゃ ん | Konnichiwa Akachan | 1963 | Rokusuke egg | Hachidai Nakamura | |
さ く ら 貝 の 歌 | Sakurakai no uta | 1949 | Kajō Tsuchiya | Hideaki Yashima | |
さ く ら さ く ら | Sakura sakura | 1888 | Lyricist and composer unknown | ||
サ ッ ち ゃ ん | Satchan | 1959 | Hiroo Sakata | Megumi Ōnaka | |
里 の 秋 | Sato no aki | 1945 | Nomuo Saito | Minoru Kainuma | |
幸 せ な ら 手 を た た こ う | Shiawase nara te o tatakō | 1964 | Rihito Kimura | Melody of "If You're Happy and You Know It", Spanish or Latin American folk song |
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叱 ら れ て | Shikararete | 1972 | Katsura Shimizu | Ryutaro Hirota | |
四季 の 歌 | Shiki no uta | 1970? | Toyohisa Araki | Toyohisa Araki | |
時代 | Jidai | 1975 | Miyuki Nakajima | Miyuki Nakajima | |
シ ャ ボ ン 玉 | Shabondama | 1922 | Ujō Noguchi | Shinpei Nakayama | |
ず い ず い ず っ こ ろ ば し | Zuizui zukkorobashi | 1500 | Lyricist and composer unknown | ||
ス キ ー | Sukī | 1942 | Otowa Shigure | Kōzaburō Hirai | |
背 く ら べ 背 く ら べ | Seikurabe | 1923 | Atsushi Unno | Shinpei Nakayama | |
世界 に 一 つ だ け の 花 | Sekai ni hitotsu dake no hana | 2003 | Noriyuki Makihara | Noriyuki Makihara | |
ぞ う さ ん | Zō-san | 1953 | Michio Mado | Ikuma Dan | |
早春 賦 | Sōshunfu | 1913 | Kazumasa Yoshimaru | Akira Nakada | |
た き び た き び | Takibi | 1941 | Seika Tatsumi | Shigeru Watanabe | |
ち い さ い 秋 み つ け た | Chiisai Aki Mitsuketa | 1955 | Hachirō Satō | Yoshinao Nakada | |
茶 摘 み | Chatsumi | 1912 | MEXT | MEXT | |
チ ュ ー リ ッ プ | Chūrippu (Tulip) | 1932 | Miyako Kondo | Takeshi Inoue | |
月 の 沙漠 | Tsuki no sabaku | 1923 | Masao Kato | Suguru Sasaki | |
翼 を く だ さ い | Tsubasa o kudasai | 1971 | Michio Yamagami | Kunihiko Murai | |
手 の ひ ら を 太陽 に | Te no hira o taiyō ni | 1961 | Takashi Yanase | Taku Izumi | |
通 り ゃ ん せ | Tōryanse | Edo period | Lyricist and composer unknown | ||
ど こ か で 春 が | Doko ka de haru ka | 1923 | Sōji Momota | Shin Kusakawa | |
ド レ ミ の う た | Thu-Re-Wed | 1959 |
Peggy Hayama after Oscar Hammerstein II |
Richard Rodgers | from the musical The Sound of Music |
ど ん ぐ り こ ろ こ ろ | Donguri korokoro | Taishō period | Nagayoshi Aoki | Tadashi Yanada | |
と ん ぼ の め が ね | Tonbo no megane | 1949 | Seishi Nukaga | Kōzaburo Hirai | |
な い し ょ 話 | Naisho hanashi | 1939 | Yoshio Yūki | Yasuharu Yamaguchi | |
涙 そ う そ う | Nada Soso | 1998 | Ryōko Moriyama | BEGIN | |
夏 の 思 い 出 | Natsu no omoide | 1949 | Shoko Ema | Yoshinao Nakada | |
夏 は 来 ぬ | Natsu wa kinu | 1896 | Sasaki Nobutsuna | Sakunosuke Koyama | |
七 つ の 子 | Nanatsu no Ko | 1921 | Ujō Noguchi | Nagayo Motoori | |
花 〜 す べ て の 人 の 心 に 花 を 〜 | Hana: Subete no hito no kokoro ni hana o | 1980 | Shōkichi Kina | Shōkichi Kina | |
花 | Hana | 1900 | Hagoromo Takeshima | Rentarō Taki | |
花 の 街 | Hana no machi | 1947 | Shoko Ema | Ikuma Dan | |
埴 生 の 宿 | Hanyu no yado | 1889 |
Tadashi Satomi after John Howard Payne |
Henry Rowley Bishop | Melody of "Home! Sweet Home!" from the opera Clari, Maid of Milan (1823) |
浜 千 鳥 | Hamachidori | 1919 | Meishu Kashima | Ryutaro Hirota | |
浜 辺 の 歌 | Hamabe no uta | 1916 | Kokei Hayashi | Tamezo Narita | |
春 が 来 た | Haru ga kita | 1910 | Tatsuyuki Takano | Teiichi Okano | |
春 の 小川 | Haru no ogawa | 1912 | Tatsuyuki Takano | Teiichi Okano | |
ふ じ の 山 | Fuji no yama | 1911 | Sazanami Iwaya | MEXT | |
冬 景色 | Fuyugeshiki | 1913 | MEXT | MEXT | |
冬 の 星座 | Fuyu no seiza | 1947 | Keizo Horiuchi | William Shakespeare Hays | Melody from "Mollie Darling" (1871) |
故 郷 | Furusato | 1914 | Tatsuyuki Takano | Teiichi Okano | |
蛍 の 光 | Hotaru no Hikari | 1881 | Chikai Inagaki | Melody from " Auld Lang Syne " |
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牧場 の 朝 | Masaba no asa | 1932 | Sojinkan Sugimura | Eikichi Funabashi | |
見上 げ て ご ら ん 夜 の 星 を | Miagete Goran Yoru no Hoshi o | 1963 | Rokusuke egg | Taku Izumi | |
み か ん の 花 咲 く 丘 | Mikan no hana saku oka | 1946 | Shōgo Katō | Minoru Kainuma | |
蟲 の こ ゑ | Mushi no koe | 1910 | MEXT | MEXT | |
む す ん で ひ ら い て | Musunde hiraite | 1947 | MEXT | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Melody "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" from the opera Le devin du village (1752) |
村 祭 | Muramatsuri | 1942 | Shigeru Kuzuhara | Yoshie Minami | |
め だ か の 学校 | Medaka no gakkō | 1950 | Shigeru Chaki | Yoshinao Nakada | |
も み じ | Momiji | 1911 | Tatsuyuki Takano | Teiichi Okano | |
椰子 の 実 | Yashinomi | 1936 | Tōson Shimazaki | Toraji Ōnaka | |
夕 日 | Yūhi | 1921 | Shigeru Kuzuhara | Kingetsu Murozaki | |
夕 焼 小 焼 | Yūyake koyake | 1923 | Ukō Nakamura | Shin Kusakawa | |
雪 | Yuki | 1911 | MEXT | MEXT | |
揺 籃 の う た | Yurikago no uta | 1921 | Hakushu Kitahara | Shin Kusakawa | |
旅 愁 | Ryoshu | 1907 | Kyūkei Indō | John P. Ordway | Melody from "Dreaming of Home and Mother" (1851) |
リ ン ゴ の 唄 | Ringo no uta | 1945 | Hachirō Satō | Tadashi Manjome | from the film Soyokaze , 1945 by Yasushi Sasaki |
わ れ は 海 の 子 | Goods wa umi no ko | 1910 | Kōichirō Miyahara | MEXT |
Web links
- 親子 で 歌 い つ ご う 日本 の 歌 百 選 . Office for Cultural Affairs,accessed December 16, 2014(Japanese, song selection on the website of the Office for Cultural Affairs).