Chugoku Region Lullaby (Japanese: 中国地方の子守唄 or chūgoku chihō no komoriuta) is a traditional folk song in Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku region, Japan, and is a well known Japanese cradle song.
The song is best known by the arrangement by Kosaku Yamada that was made in 1938.[1] An instrumental version, played on a harp, historically marked the end of transmission at night on RCC, broadcasting to Hiroshima Prefecture. Up until 1987, a violin version was used on Sanyo Broadcasting, in Okayama and Kagawa, also signalling the end of daily programming. During the shutdown of analog television in Japan on 24 July 2011, RCC played the song for the final time on the station's analog signal shortly before the station switched off its analog transmitters.
ねんねこ しゃっしゃりませきょうは 二十五日さあすは この子のねんころろ 宮詣りねんころろん ねんころろん
宮へ 詣った時なんと言うて 拝むさ一生 この子のねんころろ まめなようにねんころろん ねんころろん
Nenneko shasshari mase,Kyō wa nijūgo-nichi sa.Asu wa kono ko no,Nenkororo, Miya-mairi.Nenkororon, nenkororon.
Miya e maitta toki,Nan to yūte ogamu sa.Issho kono ko no, Nenkororo, mame na yō ni.Nenkororon, nenkororon.
Hushabye, sleep!Today is the 25th day of his birth.Tomorrow we will go,Hushabye, to the shrine,Hushabye!
Arriving at the shrine,what will you pray for?Through his life, may he be,Hushabye, healthy!Hushabye!