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This is a Min'yo piece .

Hatoma-bushi appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Musical Atlas - Japan  (Listen)
The Okinawa islands are situated in the south-western sea of Japan, and the Yaeyama Islands belong to the southern part of the Okinawa group, close to Taiwan. This is an area very rich in folk songs. The songs recorded here are typical of Okinawa and quite different from those of Japan itself, although the culture is basically the same. The scale rather resembles that of South-East Asia, and the use of the Jabisen, a three-stringed lute with a long stick and a small body covered with snake skin, shows the influence of Chinese music. Hatoma-bushi, originally a song from a small island called Hatoma, is one of the most famous songs of Okinawa. The song used to be sung when the people of the island joyfully watched the boats carrying the rice and millet they paid as tax.