Bright, energetic electronic pop cue featuring propulsive drums, restless shamisen, frenetic solo fue and crunchy female vocal (source track: Akita Ondo, KPM WM40-3)

Rich, expansive scenesetter featuring low synthetic drone, metallic textures, fue, shamisen, percussion and celebratory female vocal (source track: Souma Bon Uta, KPM WM40-1)

Powerful traditional Edo-era fishermen's song from Hokkaido, sung while dragging in their nets; featuring shamisen, fue, percussion, taiko and mixed vocals

Reflective, sorrowful folk song from Miyagi Prefecture, originating from banquets and red-light districts, expressing the inevitability of rain; featuring fue, shamisen, percussion and mixed vocals

Lively, joyful folk melody from Akita Prefecture, originally a bawdy banquet song which developed into a comical song about praising one's hometown; featuring shamisen, fue, percussion and mixed vocal

Bold, cinematic remix opens with heavy drum loop and driving shamisen, building with bass, crunchy Rhodes piano, strings, fue and female vocal to epic, dramatic finale (source track: Yosakoi Bushi, KPM WM40-6)

Optimistic travelling song named after a ship that connected Osaka and Marukame, later a popular banquet song; featuring fue, shamisen, percussion and mixed vocals

Deep synth drone, strings and floating, expressive fue are joined by shamisen and percussion to create a hugely evocative soundscape (source track: Konpira Fune Fune, KPM WM40-5)

Bawdy folk song from Fukuoka Prefecture, originally sung by geishas and maikos at banquets and in red-light districts, later adopted by the miners who spent their time there; featuring shamisen, fue, taiko, hand claps and mixed vocals

Edo-era folk-dance song from Osaka Prefecture, typically sung at festivals where people sing along to the comical lyrics and show off their local pride; featuring shamisen, percussion and mixed vocals