Go-Touchi Songs（ご当地ソング）: The Kyushu region and Okinawa

 

Well, all things come to an end, and such is the case with the go-touchi series of kayo which began all the way up in the north more than a month ago. Continuing from the Chugoku region and Shikoku last week, it will now come to an end in the south with the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan, Kyushu, and then Okinawa. Once again, the regional songs here are just the tip of a really large iceberg, and I hope that you can find some other famous go-touchi songs not just for these territories but for the others that have been covered over the past several weeks. The island of Kyushu consists of Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Nagasaki, Oita, Saga, Kagoshima and Miyazaki Prefectures.

1. Fuyumi Sakamoto -- Abaredaiko (あばれ太鼓) for the Kokura district in Kita-Kyushu City (1987)

2. Nyc Nyusa -- Sachiko（サチコ）for Fukuoka City (1981)

3. Hiroshi Uchiyamada and The Cool Five -- Nagasaki wa Kyou mo Ame Datta （長崎は今日も雨だった）for Nagasaki City (1969)

4. Saburo Kitajima -- Satsuma no Hito（薩摩の女）for Kagoshima City (1968)

5. Yoshio Tabata -- Shima Sodachi (島育ち) for Amami-Oshima in Kagoshima Prefecture (1962)

6. Shoukichi Kina -- Haisai Ojisan（ハイサイおじさん）for Okinawa (1972)

Here's one final look at some of the delectable dishes from the area. This final time, we have toruko rice （トルコライス）from Nagasaki and then goya champuru（ゴーヤチャンプル）in Okinawa.