ABSTRACT
Joy is a motif in 9.8 per cent of the representative songs of Japan’s first modern century (44 of 451 songs between 1868 and 1963). As shown in Figure 4.1, songs of joy reached two clear heights of popularity. The first began in the late 1880s and peaked a few years later at the time of the Sino-Japanese War, coming to an end just before the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. The second spanned a decade at the beginning of the Showa period, in the 1920s and 1930s. Proportion of popular songs with the motif of joy https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203843956/5452df2c-10f5-4c2b-854f-a25b132a7cbc/content/fig4_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
