The Jewish Folk Song Everyone in Japan Knows

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How did a song every Jewish kid knows by heart end up a staple of Japanese society, featured in anime, films, and memes? Join us for the surprising history.
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@elliotmerker8539 2 года назад

As a little Jewish kid In America, I thought I was going crazy when i realized the music being played on my gameboy pocket when i played one of the mini games that came with the gameboy camera. My parents thought it must have been a coincidence. I FEEL SO VINDICATED!!!

@fluffinmcpuffin1879 8 месяцев назад

The juggling one right?

@MechanicalRabbits Год назад

The fact that this song instantly sounds japanese to me shows how much of an influence its had on actual japanese music!

@user-kd2rj1hd5r Месяц назад

This song doesn’t sound Japanese at all. It definitely has something similar to Eastern European music, the rythme and instruments. The version that “sounds” Japanese is definitely a “Japanized” version and not the other way.

@charly345mstl 3 года назад

it's not only about Jewish songs but also many foreign music were translated into Japanese, since educators at that time believed that singing those foreign songs would be good for kid's education. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Auld Lang Syne, Grandfather's Clock, The Other Day, I Met a Bear, Flohwalzer, Dona Dona, Неделька, etc... Especially "Auld Lang Syne" is from before the WW2, it spread also to Taiwan, Korea and Indonesia (places where Japan once ruled and soldiers taught kids the song, then localized)

@Artemisio987 3 года назад

oh my god is that why 70's tv anime music sounds like klezmer music?? japan fell in love with this particular song and it became a massive inspiration?? (sorry if you talked about this in more detail, i am FLABBERGASTED and had to leave a comment before finishing the video lol)

@Keeper1st 4 года назад

I was similarly surprised to hear the American Civil War song "Marching Through Georgia" in a Japanese context. It's a hugely popular folksong there called "Pai-no-pai-no-pai" with completely different lyrics. Everyone in Japan knows the melody but is completely unaware that it originated during the American Civil War!

@noahoskow4551 4 года назад

Interesting! Lots of popular folk songs in Japan stemming from the same era but with minimal context being taught about them. "Turkey in the Straw" is huge, although it's called "Oklahoma Mixer" in Japan.

@juch3 3 года назад

Well i was equally surprised that the song, Glory Glory Hallelujah, they sing in churches over here in South east Asia was also an American civil war song.

@Pantsinabucket Год назад

@@juch3”Glory Glory Hallelujah”, or the Battle Hymn of the Republic, actually has roots further back than the civil war. The melody is derived from a black spiritual song sung by enslaved workers, which later developed into the battle Hymn’s predecessor, John Brown’s Body, in the years after John Brown’s failed attempt at starting a slave uprising.

@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes Год назад

@@Pantsinabucket There's also another step in between. "Hey Brother Will You Meet Us" a song from the second great awakening.

@Uncensored-ep8sf Год назад

As a Japanese, I find it very strange that the theme song of "Yodobashi Camera," the largest electronics retailer in Japan, is the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" from the American Civil War.

@KayYou687 4 года назад

Omg this is amazing!! So fun to learn/see a Jewish folk song spin off into another life in Japan! Very well done video! Loved it!

@UnseenJapan 4 года назад

Glad you appreciated it! Always interesting to see where Jewish and Japanese culture intersect.

@noahoskow4551 4 года назад

This video was a lot of fun to make - really enjoyed getting to research aspects of my own culture and how a little part of it has made it so big in Japan. Mayim Mayim is still completely stuck in my head, though.

@DetectiveGesicht 4 года назад

I've only known this song as the Donburi CM song (sang that a lot as a kid). Loved this video, Noah. Thanks for the deep dive.

@noahoskow4551 4 года назад

@@DetectiveGesicht Ha, that's pretty funny! Really glad you enjoyed it.

@fabiofukuda6724 4 года назад

I'm Japanese-Brazilian, and I also grew up dancing Mayim Mayim here in every school undokai here in Brazil!

@noahoskow4551 4 года назад

@@fabiofukuda6724 That's really interesting! I've actually written two articles about the history of the Japanese-Brazilians for Unseen Japan - I'd like to turn them into videos like this someday! Really a fascinating history.

@fabiofukuda6724 4 года назад

@@noahoskow4551 I would love to read them! not that many people know Brazil has the largest Japanese community outside Japan.

@bakklajohn 3 года назад

This is sooo friggin cool! I’m Russian with no Jewish heritage whatsoever, but my wife has some, so we applied for Masa program and ended up living in Israel for almost a year. I fell in love deeply with Jewish culture, and having quite a liking for everything Japanese since my teen years I was stunned to find out about Mayim Mayim in Japanese culture. Todah rabah!

@ruxtehdy 3 года назад

do you happen to know what russian "rondo" dance is being mentioned at 9:47? i've googled around but not coming up with anything definitively related to dance, only rondo music which doesn't appear to be very danceable nor russian in origin.

@veniveniveni549 3 года назад

@@ruxtehdy check out "kalinka" and russian folk dances

@AbelMaganaAvalos 2 года назад

@@veniveniveni549 I am aware..also to continue the list try katyusha

@Hiphop618 11 месяцев назад

Late reply but I did a Masa program 10 years ago! Although it was my second time going to Israel for a longer period of time, and I wasn't happily married, just a wide-eyed 22 year-old straight out of college with a desperate need to get out of my parents' house lol

@icanwatchthevideos 3 года назад

When my Japanese professor randomly started singing マイムマイム in class one day, my mind was blown. Also just so you know, Hey Alma recently published an article on this topic that more or less lifts a few paragraphs from your script. It does link to your piece but it struck me as a little too direct 🤷‍♂️

@noahoskow4551 3 года назад

Hey, thanks for letting me know about this! It's cool that they'd cover the same topic, but you're right - the structural similarities feel like a bit much.

@Marille7982 Год назад

My dad’s jewish and my mom’s dad worked at a Jewish center so I grew up celebrating hanukah and singing a lot of Jewish songs. I have never heard of this song before but I appreciate you talking about Jewish culture on the internet, I am very proud of this side that my dad has taught me and always feel thankful when I find content about it.

@omoshirojack 2 года назад

Japanese here. I danced this when I joined school trip. Everybody knows this but most people do not know this is from Israel.

@hahahahahohohoho5085 9 месяцев назад

Im israeli and its hilarious to me how strongly japan adopted this otherwise lame old boomer folk song. First ive ever heard of it.

@TsovoaLevone 8 месяцев назад

This video is so cool

@extrapolate 8 месяцев назад

We love Japan 🇯🇵 🇮🇱

@showdaprocastinacao1040 6 месяцев назад

You mean… “weebo here.”

@ma7814 3 года назад

Send a comment from Japan. For a long time, it was a mystery as to which country this song was made in, but it was good to know. At the end of WW2 in 1956, the act of touching the skin between male and female students was avoided in Japan. There may have been various speculations in the nation and school, but I like this song.

@PecanSan 3 года назад

FINALLY SOMEONE EXPLAINS IT!!!! I remember when I first heard Mayim Mayim in the middle of an old NicoNico video fuckin YEARS ago. Thought I was goin crazy lol

@thedemongodvlogs7671 3 года назад

How does this guy not have more subscribers his quality is insanely good!

@UnseenJapan 3 года назад

Appreciate you saying so! We're steadily gaining new followers - hope to keep on making content that people seem to enjoy!

@JB-wc9hn 3 года назад

Wow this song takes me back to my days in Jewish day school. I don’t remember being taught the origins of the song just that it was popular in Israel to dance to so this was great to learn. Nice to see how other cultures enjoy traditional Jewish songs. Funny enough Steve Aoki came out with a EDM version of Hava Nagila called “Hava”. Great song to work out to!

@UnseenJapan 3 года назад

Had no idea about the Steve Aoki song - that's hilarious. Will definitely have to check it out, thanks!

@JB-wc9hn 3 года назад

Unseen Japan of course! It starts out like most EDM songs but just wait for the trumpet part haha

@harrymon0 2 года назад

@@JB-wc9hn Thanks for the rec, but it kinda sucks

@anonymous-ll4qm Год назад

This video is so cool! I am jewish, and lived in israel for my whole 21 years of living. I danced horah in school, and ive heard this song so many time of course. I used to watch the anime channel and even hebrew dubbed animes ever since i was 3. I was in love with japanese culture even as an elementary school kid. Didnt sleep to watch animes in midle school... read manga during breaks... drew anime characters 24/7... listened to japanese music (especially city pop!) A complete otaku. This video had me shocked, that japanese people know such a core part of the jewish culture, and love it. And the fact that it was featured in a movie from the biggest studio in japan!! Amazing.

@MooMinIL 4 года назад

I love this! I’ve known about this bizarre connection for years now and it has been my go to “WTF” general knowledge fact about japan when talking to other Israelis but now I actually have a video to send them afterwards 😉

@noahoskow4551 4 года назад

Ha, that's pretty much why I made the video! The connection is just too weird and fun not to share.

@jessicavitale3408 Месяц назад

I once spoke to an Armenian dancing teacher who told me he had been invited to Japan to teach. I asked him "to teach Armenian dancing to Japanese people?"...he said " no, to teach Israeli dancing".

@noahbar-shain4218 4 года назад

This is a fascinating video!! I learned so much about Israeli and Japanese history and culture. Very impressive job researching and editing

@UnseenJapan 4 года назад

Really glad you enjoyed it!

@dancin4yeshua 3 года назад

super video. i've been dancing mayim mayim since 1959 and didn't know half of this. thanks.

@joanpenn9682 Месяц назад

This was a delightful video . At a 70 Year old raised in a mixed Sephardic/Ashkenazi world in Brooklyn, I am very deeply a cultural Jew. . Too Boot with my Japanese daughter in law and bilingual Brooklyn. grandchildren and our upcoming visit to Japan, and my recent Discovery of Ghilbi and Totorro and Ponyo, I hit paydirt with this video ! I was delighted . Thank you so much

@fey2450 9 месяцев назад

As an Israeli girl who has heard both Mayim Mayim and seen many of these memes, I'm kind of ashamed of myself for not catching on to the fact it was literally the exact same song... I *did* always think it sounded Jewish.

@lolychan1 Месяц назад

Mamash aval.😅

@buntziechurchill6029 4 года назад

At 23:10 (approximately) I was amazed that the background music was a recording of "Mayim" by Hillel and Aviva that was popular in the 1950's. It brought back very happy memories. Excellent choice!!!

@noahoskow4551 4 года назад

Nice catch! I really love that version - so beautiful.

@yiddena 3 года назад

Thank you very much for this:) This explains my family's experience with "Mayim Mayim" when we lived in Japan:) LOL

@UnseenJapan 3 года назад

Our pleasure! It's definitely a song you'd eventually notice while living in Japan - glad to help solve its mystery!

@Ezra.G 2 года назад

I’m a Mizrachi Jew of middle eastern parents living in America. I’m grateful to have grown up in a city with a fairly large Jewish population (not NY lol) and I’ve always heard this song growing up. Over the past few years I’ve started becoming more interested in and consuming more Japanese media. I never knew that one of our people’s most beloved songs is so popular there. Thank you for informing me with this video. Happy Jewish heritage month as well!

@Nonrandomnumber 8 месяцев назад

Lemme guess, LA or Savannah, GA?

@fullmetal_flamingo 4 года назад

This is insanely interesting! It reminds me a bit of how my junior high school in the US had us do tinikling (Philippine folk dance with bamboo poles) with pvc pipes, but didn't explain where the heck it came from. Although that case is definitely more of a case of cultural appropriation.

@noahoskow4551 4 года назад

Really appreciate your comment! That's crazy they had you doing tinikling without any contextual explanations - it's such a unique and culturally grounded thing. I'm not sure what the point of teaching a dance like it is without including a lesson on where it comes from and who has traditionally danced it. I actually had never encountered tinikling up until my most recent time visiting the Philippines - I can't imagine it devoid of the Filippino context.

@fullmetal_flamingo 4 года назад

Thanks. I know, it is absolutely mind-boggling that we would be taught the dance (using non-Filipino music, mind you) without any sort of cultural context. But that's suburban Ohio for you. -_-

@h.cedric8157 4 года назад

@@fullmetal_flamingo hi there! Greets from the Philippines! In my hometown in the northern Philippines, the cross cultural effect had stayed with my town after the Americans were able to establish a town there more than a hundred years ago. The feel of my town is Little different from an American southern town feel. People wear cowboy hats, country songs blare out loudspeakers, American country inspired bars, house designs(and even our town hospital, Good News Hospital, looks just like it came straight from Little House on the Prairie) Sadly I am stuck in the capital city due to the worsening CORONAVIRUS spread in the Philippines as our Government bungled their management of it. As for Tinikling dance, i fondly remember being rejected as i was never a good dancer and winced home with a purple toe...

@Frostyflytrap 3 года назад

What a fascinatingly deep history this song has, absolutely astounding. I first heard this from the memes, but I was surprised to learn its Hebrew origins. Thanks for this video! Probably one of my favorite videos of this year. :D

@noahoskow4551 3 года назад

Wow, high praise! Thank you.

@toumachigure1557 10 месяцев назад

I'm Japanese and I really feel like there is some sort of cultural bond between the Jewish culture and Japanese culture. for example, although there are no proper founding proof of this but the Japanese-Jewish common ancestry theory is a good example. and lot of old to modern pop culture similarity popping up here and there makes you wonder...

@user-yz8pw9dv2n 25 дней назад

I was the only child of Sephardi Greek Holocaust survivors from Salonika/ Thessaloniki the second main city of Greece.I now live in London England.But the best years of my life in Israel where my heart has always remained.Thankyou for this amazing video of us and ours.Obviously I am familiar with these songs from Israel and accompanying music, and Israeli history.But deepest gratitude for this great excellent video from you.

@Nitroxity 3 года назад

Thanks so much for making this! The band who did the version for Pakkun Tamago, Open Sesame, made an album entitled Chocolate Panic for an anime OVA of the same name in 1985, which is how I came across this. The Chocolate Panic album actually engages with a lot of genre and style coming out of parts of Africa at the time, so it's fitting that they would cover such a worldly song. I've ordered the single they released, which apparently has an English version of the song, and I'll be uploading it to my channel as soon as it arrives. Again thank you so much for enlightening me about the song's origins!

@yourbootyholeisyourbeautyhole 3 года назад

i'm an observant jew myself and this makes me so happy!! 😭 i swear, there's something about our cultures that connect so well. but now it's stuck in my head, lol.

@walkerx1813 2 года назад

It's definitely an earworm... Time to learn *h e b r e w* so I can sing it

@user-kq1zp4sq4p 2 года назад

wait youre a japanese observant jew? those are really rare wow, didnt think there were any

@inachu Год назад

The Japanese Ainu are jewish Jews in Japan have been in Japan since the creation of Sumo.

@sid.h 4 года назад

This was such a beautiful story, thank you for telling it!

@UnseenJapan 4 года назад

Thanks for watching, and really glad you enjoyed it!

@aleckiscar7909 2 года назад

And oddly enough, this is not the first case of a jewish/israeli folk song becoming a Japanese song and part of the culture. For example - hora hadera (הורה חדרה) is used for the music theme of voltes v opening song.

@MADARA-music 9 месяцев назад

I have danced to this song in the past. my parents too. All Japanese people know this song. I learned how to dance to this song at school and I really enjoyed it.

@Z-to-E 6 месяцев назад

As of now, the new Flandre character in the game "Touhou: lost word" has individual spell cards that spell out the words of the song, as an Israeli person and a Jewish one as well I recognized it immediately and was utterly confused and surprised as this is a song I danced to growing up in a kibbutz.. thank you so much for this well researched video and the well needed explanation!

@corrincrellin 3 года назад

That was so dang fun and nice to watch, smiled the whole time... Thanks brother for making this!

@catherineoskow2690 4 года назад

Such an interesting cross-cultural connection!

@UnseenJapan 4 года назад

It really is, isn't it?

@MetFanMac 4 года назад

Minor corrections: The Torah isn't the Old Testament, but rather the entire Tanach, of which the Torah comprises the first of three portions. And it isn't "orientalist" to think Yemenite Jews had a closer connection to ancient Jewish life, it's an acknowledged fact due to their relative isolation and strict religious adherence over the centuries. Also, major props for a dispassionate and objective description of the history of Mandatory Palestine.

@urijahkaplan1855 4 года назад

That is not correct. Depending on context, Torah can mean "Chamishei Chumshei Torah" (aka the Five Books of Moses/Pentateuch), TaNaCh, (aka the Old Testament/Torah Sh'Biksav) or everything (Torah Sh'Biksav and Torah Sh'Beal Peh).

@jennifermalvin8150 2 года назад

Just wonderful! Thank you so much! This short documentary on the history of "Mayim, Mayim," is rich with detail, history, and perfectly integrated video footage. You will leave with a bounce in your step and a smile on your face!

@Mrmoe198 4 года назад

This is awesome! As a Jew raised as a Frum Litvak, this was both a childhood throwback and an informative look at a sharing of our culture that was previously unknown to me. Thank you for putting this together! P.S. Don't pay attention to those criticizing your voice. You are you, you did what came naturally, and I appreciate you.

@edenromanov 3 года назад

A very well researched and overall fun video with entertaining edits, subbed

@nivsport 3 года назад

Great video! Loved the in depth research and engaging presentation!

@spaceinvader2017 Год назад

What a great video.I learned so much, other than that the flow, the editing and storytelling of the video is tremendous. I hope I can one day invite this tradition in my country, the way it unites people makes me smile.

@ocbgrounds6168 3 года назад

Excellent dance history research and visuals. I'll be using a couple of clips from this for my music appreciation class' study of how cultural materials travel from place to place.

@noahoskow4551 3 года назад

That's really cool to hear! Hope the class goes well, and thanks for watching.

@crisjapopcris1564 9 месяцев назад

I'm Brazilian Japanese and I remember learning マイムマイム (maim maim) and ハヴァナギラハヴァ(hava nagila hava) at a Japanese kindergarten in Brazil. I found out these songs were Jewish many years later, thought they were Japanese because there are Japanese folksongs with uncommon words like the ソーラン節 (soran bushi) song, which my grandmother used to sing to me.

@NKatz 3 года назад

I'm so in love with you lol I'm a Jewish woman that LOVES anime! I never knew this! Very cool!

@gaylerosenthal1828 3 года назад

Wonderful video - very well curated ! My only grumble is that the print of the subtitles overlay some of the descriptions on the photos. But fortunately there is rewind. Signed... an old Israeli Folk dancer from Texas.

@ellielarsen3673 Год назад

Great video, very interesting. I Love the song and the dance. Incredible research and editing to the video making it flow, smoothly and easy to follow. Well Done.

@samuelforesta 2 года назад

You have no idea how overjoyed I am to hear about this

@h.i.sentertainments8580 24 дня назад

As a Japanese myself, I can confirm that I grew up with this song, and heard different versions. It was a huge part of high school cultural festival. Because my school was boy only, it became a place where you invite girls from another schools to dance together. It is basically my equivalent of ball or prom.

@animemarvelmdkfan7091 2 года назад

Hello Unseen Japan. Loved the video, great research, exept one major miss. You didn't mention the Composer of Maim Maim - Emmanuel Amiran (Pugachov). He is the one who made the music. In 4:52 it's written: "לחן: עמנואל עמירן (פוגצ'וב)", but you didn't give him credit at all.

@revangerang Год назад

12:15 talks about the composer

@KitaruTC Год назад

The video discusses the arranger, but not the original composer. If I understood other sources correctly, Emanuel Amiran-Pougatchov is credited with the original composition and lyrics. Yehuda Sharett worked on the arrangement that was used with Else Dublon's choreography at the 1937 festival to celebrate discovering water. The misunderstanding may have come from a reading of a translation of Else Dublon's comments on the event, which read "Yehuda gave me his song 'Usha’avtem,' which he had orchestrated, ..." without mention of the original composer Amiran. However, I don't know German to determine if the nuance of the original text ("Yehuda gab mir sein Lied Ushavtem, das er orchestriert hatte, ...") conveys that it was Sharett's orechestration, or if Dublon was simply unaware of the previous composition by Amiran.

@anthropologicalminds2855 4 года назад

Cool, you guys should connect with the Jewpanese Facebook page. They look at fusions and cultural connections between Ashkenazi and Japanese overtime.

@UnseenJapan 4 года назад

We'll definitely be sending them the video! Noah's actually written some previous articles on Jewish-Japanese themes that have been featured on their page before.

@mk-la 2 месяца назад

Maybe that's why the soundtracks of 70's to early 80's anime sound vaguely Jewish to me

@yanivPressesCircles 3 года назад

Found this on reddit, very happy i did Amazing video Subbdd!

@DanLuxe 3 года назад

This was an awesome video! Well done!

@josh64big Год назад

Thank you for sharing. This was incredibly well written and informative video essay.

@user-ni1ib1gx8r 10 месяцев назад

Noah--that was one of the most fascinating stories I've ever heard!!! Thank you so much!!!

@cadacuro Год назад

Amazing content and great historical content! And yes, Mayim Mayim has stucked in my head!

@KiwiFMA 2 года назад

I always wondered about this!!!! I've heard the tune in countless animes, and always laughed it off as a "similar sound", but this is so cool!!!!

@stopsomewhere9104 Год назад

Love this video too!! One thing I would be super interested in, thinking of that bit about organic farming, would be the Yamagishi Association, something I have been trying to learn more about

@sapimen 4 года назад

Thank you very much! It was so informative!

@UnseenJapan 4 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@VictorLaszlo46 9 месяцев назад

Moroccan Jew, right here, much family came to Israel in '48. The rest went to the US, but we all know the song regardless of where we are.

@user-eo6fy5rl2k 4 года назад

Well... that song we sing only on Sukot.

@ryomahoffman6803 3 года назад

I’m half Japanese half Jewish so this was cool

@noahoskow4551 3 года назад

Nice! Always cool to find those instances where both cultures meet.

@jiafeiskinnyproducts 3 года назад

ayyy same

@PrincessOzaline Год назад

Conversion student, and student of Japanese wanting to be a J > E translator. I hadn't come across this song at Shul yet, maybe because of the pandemic and being an an adult. But now it's lived in my head for the past two days and I have to show all the Jewish anime fans I know clips of it before following up with your video. This is so cool.

@RachelShauna 4 года назад

19:56 is literally what every jewish wedding/ bar & bat mitzvah looks like tho omfg i love this.

@Becca-hp4bg 3 года назад

LMAO TRUE

@lavenderaqua2655 3 года назад

YES

@billbill9392 3 года назад

Bless your Japan Mother the Jewish faith is very interesting from outsiders as the Japan culture is to us

@eileentruehawaii1875 3 года назад

I had to practice and dance to this song at my elementary school I went in Japan on a field day every single year. I didn’t know it was a Jewish song.

@erezgotbored 3 года назад

That was amazing to watch, thank you! Any chance that those pictures of Jerusalem are located somewhere on the web? It is incredible to see such beautifully preserved footages.

@jacobbowser1158 Год назад

Love this video! As someone who only recently found out that I am half Jewish by birth and have been trying to learn as much as possible about Jewish history and where my father's family comes from this video brought a tear to my eye. Thank you!

@yuts01 3 года назад

マイムマイムにそんな歴史があったとは

@itamar7559 2 месяца назад

This made me smile… I love Japan and its people ❤

@normal6483 11 месяцев назад

I grew up dancing to this song, and I saw the meme versions and heard it in anime, but somehow I never made the connection that it was the same song! The world is an amazing place.

@WarpRulez 3 года назад

When I was linked to this video, I thought "hmm, quite interesting", but was thinking of just watching a couple of minutes of it. 25 minutes later, still watching.

@user-on1nb9wy9h 7 месяцев назад

There are traces of many Jews who came to Japan, and it is said that there are some customs that only Jews and Japanese do and some Hebrew-like words or not. Recent geological research has revealed that there was a major volcanic eruption in southern Kyushu during the Jomon Period, about 7,300 years ago, before the Yayoi Period. The volcanic ash made western Japan uninhabitable, and people who evacuated to the Korean Peninsula returned to Japan during the Yayoi Period. It is also said that there may have been groups of people who went to China, India, and the Arab world, and returned to Japan after many generations of mixed blood. It has recently been said that the returned groups may have left behind Jewish customs, language and traces in Japan.

@dancin4yeshua 3 года назад

not only is the musical fiddler on the roof extremely popular in japan, but so is israeli and international folk dance.

@ferretsnax 6 месяцев назад

Wow, this was so interesting. Thank you for sharing!♥

@songstresspriestess 4 года назад

So neat! Thanks for this educational, neat episode... Shalom!

@UnseenJapan 4 года назад

Shalom! Glad you enjoyed it!

@B4R0N. 3 года назад

That was extremely interesting! And now I have to take this song outta my head.

@nikkin3752 11 месяцев назад

Honestly absolutely blew my mind! Of all the songs I was expecting, it wasn't that one, so imagine the surprise on my face when Mayim Mayim started playing. An incredibly fascinating video!

@ydanese3518 11 месяцев назад

Well, being Japanese and Jewish, I never knew why this song was always staple in undou kai

@DarkestElemental616 3 года назад

That was...not the Jewish song I was expecting. This is very fascinating!

@UnseenJapan 3 года назад

Ha, which were you thinking it'd be?

@lavenderaqua2655 3 года назад

@@UnseenJapan I thought it would be Hava negila

@Roarshark12 4 года назад

*Fantastic*!! Wow, you put so much work into that. I liked the great source material you drew from!

@UnseenJapan 4 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@Roarshark12 4 года назад

@@UnseenJapan Hai! As an Israeli-American Jew, I'm very interested in Japanese-Israeli cultural interchange. I found fellow Israelis in every nook and cranny in Japan when I toured there almost twenty years ago. I understand that one of the Japanese counting systems comes from a Hebrew phrase? In any case, I'd love to learn more about how the Japanese and Israeli cultures positively affect one another :) Thanks again for a great video!

@pattyoconnell1950s 2 года назад

Everyday I walk to my mailbox and back home. About 15 minutes. Mayim Mayim is my new folk song to hum as I walk. Thank You enjoying your video. In 1987 My family hosted a Japanese Exchange Student in Stockton CA. Her name was Miuki Takanaka…spelling might be a little misinterpreted. She later married and her last name was Sazuki on Valentines Day In Japan.

@bars21498 4 года назад

אהבתי מאוד ! אני חנונית של מחקר מעמיק ושונאת שמראים רק חלק מסיפור . רואים שעבדת קשה על הסרטון ועל המחקר שלפניו

@user-ri9ev7zc2f 3 года назад

רגע אז הוא כיאילו מבין עברית?

@noahoskow4551 3 года назад

@@user-ri9ev7zc2f בטח, העברית שלי לא מושלמת, אבל אני מבין די טוב.😉

@user-ri9ev7zc2f 3 года назад

יפהה איך אתה יודע עברית?

@noahoskow4551 3 года назад

@@user-ri9ev7zc2f למדתי בבית הספר היסודי ובחטיבת הביניים ולמדתי לקראת בר המצווה שלי. לפני כמה שנים מאוד רציתי לשפר את העברית שלי, אז ביליתי חודשים בלימוד עצמי.

@niralon8068 3 года назад

@@noahoskow4551 העברית שלך מושלמת. תודה רבה על הסרטון המעמיק. הדרכתי טיולים ביפן ולראשונה שמעתי על הגרסה היפנית מקולגה מקומי. הוא שמח לקבל קבוצת ישראלים ושר לנו השיר ביפנית.

@foster7517 2 года назад

theres a hebrew word that sounds exactly like samurai that means protector of the island...blew my mind..that one really convinced me.

@fuzzytheduck6821 2 года назад

That’s probably two words: Shomer, meaning protector/guard and ai, meaning island

@koshej613 Год назад

@@fuzzytheduck6821 Wow, I never realized it, and I speak Hebrew myself, lol. Cool!

@Paul-oi2wz 2 года назад

I love how you avoided getting this video flagged, very clever.

@Goudenogen 3 года назад

Thank you so much for this beautiful video 💖

@UnseenJapan 3 года назад

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.

@f1r3hydr4nt 3 года назад

I grew up in Japan a Jew. Never knew about this!

@kablanetkablanet989 Год назад

Although I do not understand Japanese or know anything about Japanese culture, it turns out that there are over 1,000 words in Japanese that are similar in meaning and sound to Hebrew. Beyond that, there was a Japanese television show that talks about the Jewish roots of Japan ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kDrgMS78-ek.html I would love to get your opinion Thanks

@Uncensored-ep8sf Год назад

Japanese-Jewish common ancestry theory(日ユ同祖論). It is a popular theory often used as a research theme in Japan, but it has yet to be clearly elucidated. It is true that there are many negative opinions in Japan, but it is certainly romantic to think that they share a similar language and culture despite being in a foreign land.

@WaterSeesWater 7 месяцев назад

今の小学校はわからんが、昔の小学校の音楽の時間では、いろんな国の民謡が歌われた。音楽の教科書に載っているからね。蛍の光は、アイルランド民謡だし、黒い瞳は、ロシア民謡。明治期の日本の音楽家たちは、欧米諸国の民謡＝フォークソングをもとに日本人用の学校でみんなで歌う歌を作って行ったのだ。現代日本語自体、欧米諸語を翻訳する作業から生まれてきたと言える。

@kaidolt Год назад

heard the song after watching techii no kuni and had to know where this song came from, thanks!

@KingEli 3 года назад

What a great video you really blew my mind, Shalom from Israel (:

@ichi_san 11 месяцев назад

This is awesome thank you This song is such an awesome one, so thank you for explaining its origins 3:36 yess the electric version of this song ive heard before

@MichaelSlovin 3 года назад

Way of the Samurai OST tunes? Subscribed.

@UnseenJapan 3 года назад

A man of culture, I see.

@SeekersofUnity 4 года назад

Hahaha this is epic. Thanks for sharing this.

@UnseenJapan 4 года назад

Happy to!

@dlrussek 2 года назад

What a musical trip you provided, Noah! Thanks so much. I know the song since I was a small boy and I would have never imagined the connections you reveal. This video uncovers so many interesting facts about folk music and its dissemination around the world.