SOLD – Nihon no minyo / oiwake hen LP – Various Artists (1970)
This album focuses on the Oiwake traditional song style. Being the most popular of the min’yo repertoire, It features songs from all over Japan in places where fishermen and sea-workers needed inspiration and comfort to carry on the labour.
Traditional, the music is interpreted by a singer accompanied by shamisen (Japanese luth), shakuhachi (bamboo flute) and taiko (drum), and sometimes other instruments too.