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"Katyusha's Song" (カチューシャの唄, Kachūsha no Uta), or "Song of Katyusha", is a Japanese song which was highly popular in early-20th century Japan. It was composed in the major pentatonic scale by Shinpei Nakayama with lyrics by Soeda Azenbō [ja]. The song was sung by Sumako Matsui in a dramatization of Leo Tolstoy's 1899 novel Resurrection, first put on stage in the Geijutsuza [ja] theatre, Tokyo in 1914.

The same year the Nippon Kinetophone company released a kinetophone record of Matsui Sumako's singing with the same title.

Influences

Katyusha's song became a national hit in Japan from 1913 onwards, selling 27,000 copies and was taken on by street corner musicians throughout Japan. It is considered by some music historians as the first example of modern Japanese popular music.

References

1. Patrick M. Patterson (15 October 2018). Music and Words: Producing Popular Songs in Modern Japan, 1887–1952. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 25–. ISBN 978-1-4985-5036-9.
2. Yukiko Koshiro (10 May 2013). Imperial Eclipse: Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945. Cornell University Press. pp. 62–. ISBN 978-0-8014-6775-2.
3. Shunsuke Tsurumi (18 October 2010). A Cultural History of Postwar Japan: 1945-1980. Routledge. pp. 105–. ISBN 978-1-136-91766-0.
4. Nakayama Shinpei Archived 2009-07-12 at the Wayback Machine.
5. Hiromu Nagahara (10 April 2017). Tokyo Boogie-Woogie. Harvard University Press. pp. 30–. ISBN 978-0-674-97169-1.
6. Toru Mitsui (17 July 2014). Made in Japan: Studies in Popular Music. Routledge. pp. 5–. ISBN 978-1-135-95534-2.
7. Anthony V. Liman (2008). Ibuse Masuji: A Century Remembered. Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. ISBN 978-80-246-1452-6.
8. Junichiro Tanaka, The History of the Development of Japanese Cinema [ja], vol. 1: The Age of Motion Pictures, , Chuokoron-Shinsha , 1968, pp.218-223.
9. Japan on Stage: Japanese Concepts of Beauty As Shown in the Traditional Theatre. 3A Corporation. 1990. ISBN 978-4-906224-62-3.
10. The Journal of Japanese Studies. Society for Japanese Studies. 2003.
11. "Music - Reflection of traditions from the East and West" Archived 2008-11-19 at the Wayback Machine. Web-Japan, Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

External links

• Tsuchitori, Toshiyuki. "Soeda Azenbō's Katyusha". YouTube. Retrieved 21 January 2022.

• Japanese songs
• Songs written by Shinpei Nakayama