ossory
Tokyo has two chants: wasshoi, the heave that carries the shrine, and shouganai, the shrug at what cannot be helped, sung across four hundred years of burning down and building back. The history runs through Ginza's vanished silver mint, Roppongi's missing trees, a milestone buried under an expressway, and a house worth nothing after thirty years.
Wasshoi, Shouganai
Style
Fully acoustic Japanese festival folk at 132 BPM in a heavy 2/4 stomp, built on o-daiko, shime-daiko, wooden clappers and boot stomps with hard-struck shamisen and shinobue flute, alternating male and female leads answered in unison by a shouting street crowd.