These songs are composed as Japanese traditional music. The former is a "Ondo" and the latter is a "Enka". These music styles are very popular in Japan.
Ondo is a typical music of "the Bon festival dance", which takes place by districts all over the country in summer evening. (cf. Wikipedia)
Enka is a Japanese sentimental song style, which theme is mostly love song. You will hear these tunes in the drinking places in evening. (cf. Wikipedia)
Inaghekaigan is located in the east of Tokyo Bay Area. That is one of the newest residential area of Tokyo. Makuhari is the next city of Inaghekaigan, in which Macworld expo/Tokyo took place from 1992 to 1999. (cf. Google Map)
The story of "Inaghekaigan suchan ondo" and "Inaghe no chunji - otoko michi" is interrelated.
Suchan and Chunji were born and grown in Inaghekaigan. Suchan is an ordinary female sparrow. Meanwhile Chunji is a sensitive and stoic male sparrow. He leaves his home and starts on a journey for inquiring the meaning of sparrow life.
I want to say something about Chunji's costumes. That is the Yakuza's clothing during their journeys in the Edo period. Chunji is a vagabond. (cf.Wikipedia)
This and that...Sorry for my poor English.
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