We know this because the word for ‘poem’ in old Japanese, uta, is also the word for ‘song’, and there is a tradition of the oral performance and recitation of Japanese poetic compositions that remains ...

March 3 marks the annual festival called "Hinamatsuri," or Girls' Day, in Japan ... folk song. A visitor from Niigata City said hina dolls were wonderful. He also said he liked old townhouses.

Some came with old-fashioned lyrics ... comments have been posted on social media. “But the song is an indication of the diversity of Japanese society today,” Watanabe pointed out.