Kiwokuza

This music video is for Kiwokuza’s “Hiraita Hiraita.” (The flower opened) Kiwokuza is a group that reworks and performs Japanese nursery rhymes and folk songs. “What flower opened, a lotus flower opened.” These are words sung in an old Japanese children’s song “The flower opened.” It is known as a play song, where children join hands and form a circle. In unison with the lyrics “it opened” and “it closed,” the children spread their arms to form a big circle, and move in close to form a small circle, like a flower closing.

This music video is for Kiwokuza’s “Kitakaze Kozō no Kantarō.” (Kantaro the North-Wind Kid)
Kiwokuza is a group that reworks and performs Japanese nursery rhymes and folk songs.“Kitakaze Kozō no Kantarō” is well known as a winter song for children.The video was shot in the Tomioka Silk Mill in Gunma prefecture, Japan. The mill is the origin of modern industry in Japan and was registered as a World Heritage site in 2014.