Japanese folk music is known traditionally as Minyo. Free download of rare old traditional cultural Japanese folk songs mp3 as well as new latest recent fresh Japanese folk songs mp3 is widely available. One can also download free Japanese songs lyrics, videos, and video clips etc.

Japanese folk music includes not only mainland Japan music but also Okinawan folk music. Traditionally Japanese folk songs are classified into work songs, children songs, religious songs and songs for gatherings and occasions like weddings festivals etc. The Okinawan folk music was classified into religious songs, dance songs and songs for celebration.

The Minyo uses instrumesnts like shamisen, taiko, drums, shakuhachi which is a bamboo flute while Okinawan uses sanshin and sanba.
Japanese folk music uses a pentatonic scale but while Minyo omits subdominant and leading tone which results in the formation of a scale with no half notes between the notes, the Okinawan folk music has these half notes between each note.

Some famous Japanese folk songs are:

  1. Sakura which is a song sung on the arrival of the spring
  2. Yagibushi which is a song sung at sports festivals

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