Shabondama
Sign in to saveis a 1923 Japanese nursery rhyme (warabe uta) composed by Shinpei Nakayama with lyrics written by Ujō Noguchi. It is widely taught in Japanese nursery schools and kindergartens as a simple melody; it is also sometimes used in elementary school moral education courses, where students learn that it is a meditation on the death of a child.
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It sits within the topics 1923 songs, Bubbles (physics) and Japanese children's songs.
Its subject is documented across 3 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Genre
- children's music
- Country of origin
- Empire of Japan
- Main subject
- soap bubble
- Composer
- Shinpei Nakayama
- Lyrics by
- Ujō Noguchi
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- language of work or name
- Japanese
- copyright status
- public domain
- publication date
- 1923-00-00
- form of creative work
- song
- public domain date
- 2023-01-01
- title
- シャボン玉
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Melody and lyrics
- References
- External links
is a 1923 Japanese nursery rhyme (warabe uta) composed by Shinpei Nakayama with lyrics written by Ujō Noguchi. It is widely taught in Japanese nursery schools and kindergartens as a simple melody; it is also sometimes used in elementary school moral education courses, where students learn that it is a meditation on the death of a child.
Noguchi's daughter Midori died at the age of just 7 days in 1908. In the Meiji period, the infant mortality rate was quite high, with about 20–30 percent of children dying before reaching schooling age. It was common to have many children to aim for success of the household, but Noguchi was divorced and thus mourned the loss of his only child for a long time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shabondama” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.