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This is a Jiuta piece in the Zokkyoku style .

Dodoitsu appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Hauta  (Listen)
Shamisen II  (Listen)
Traditional Music of Japan, The - 03  (Listen)
This is the most representative Shamisen popular song common throughout Japan. It originates in a folk song of the Itako district named Itako-bushi. The gradual change to the present style was established by a singer of popular songs named Dodoitsubo Kasen (1796-1852). This text has 27 syllables in the order of 7-7-8-5. There are innumerable texts and the varied style of performance has given rise to additional texts from other Shamisen music or improvised dialogues inserted between the phrases. The record here is an example of the older style-of performance not having additional phrases. The title of the piece, Dodoitsu, comes from the meaningless interjection given to Nagoya-bushi. This is a varied style of the original, Itakobushi, which was in fashion in Nagoya at the beginning of the 19th century.