Go-Touchi Songs（ご当地ソング）: The Chugoku region and Shikoku

 

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Once again, Saturday is among us so it's time for the latest round of go-touchi songs, a series that I began about a month ago to commemorate some of the geographically based kayo depending on the official regions within Japan. Last week, we took care of the Kinki region including Osaka. This time, we're doing a two-for-one deal just like I did for the very first entry which looked at Hokkaido and the Tohoku region up in the north. Today, it will be the small island of Shikoku which consists of Ehime, Kagawa, Kochi, and Tokushima Prefectures and the westernmost Chugoku region on the main island of Honshu which has Hiroshima, Okayama, Shimane, Tottori, and Yamaguchi Prefectures.

1. Akiko Futaba -- Francesca no Kane（フランチェスカの鐘）for Hiroshima (1948)

2. Saburo Kitajima -- Onomichi no Hito （尾道の女）for Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture (1966)

3. Rumiko Koyanagi -- Seto no Hanayome （瀬戸の花嫁）for the Seto Inland Sea (1972)

4. Kaori Mizumori -- Tottori Sakyuu（鳥取砂丘）for Tottori Prefecture (2003)

5. Peggy Hayama -- Nangoku Tosa wo Ato ni Shite（南国土佐を後にして）for Kochi City (1959)

6. Angela Aki -- Home for Tokushima Prefecture (2005)

As usual, let's finish this off with some scrumptious dishes from the two areas. Today, we have Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki（お好み焼き）and then sanuki udon（讃岐うどん）from Kagawa Prefecture. Next week will be the final segment as we look at Kyushu and Okinawa.