Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
Min’yō (民謡) is a genre of traditional Japanese music. The term is a translation of the German word Volkslied (folk song) and has only been in use during the twentieth century. Japanese traditional designations referring to more or less the same genre include inaka bushi (country song) inaka buri (country tune) hina uta (rural song) and the like but for most of the people who sang such songs they were simply uta (song).
