Okite naku ko no tsura niku sa.
Okite naku ko no tsura niku sa.
The lullaby was rediscovered by a school teacher in 1935, long after the song ceased to be sung.
It has long been believed that this song was sung by babysitters from poor families.
Itsuki was next to Gokanosho, where the Heike people came to settle after their defeat in the Genji-Heike War in the Heian period and later the Kamakura shogunate sent their Genji samurai families to watch over them, thus creating the rich Genji families and poorer Heike families.