Children’s songs, folk songs, and nursery rhymes about insects

The Mail Carrier, Mr. Cabbage White Butterfly

The Cabbage White Butterfly Mailman Lyrics: Hachiro Sato Composition: Takashi Yoshimi Piano and Vocal: Tomoko Shimizu

The lyrics are by writer Hachirō Satō, who also worked on songs such as “Chiisai Aki Mitsuketa” (I Found a Little Autumn), “Kawaii Kakurenbo” (Cute Hide-and-Seek), and “Ureshii Hinamatsuri” (Happy Doll Festival).

The music is by Yoshinao Nakata, who composed countless children’s songs, including “Medaka no Gakkō” (The Killifish’s School) and “Natsu no Omoide” (Summer Memories).

It depicts a cabbage white butterfly flitting back and forth among the flowers.

The Insect Band

The Insect Band and Daikoku-sama (Ayako Nosho) 2

This is a school song with lyrics by Harukaze Kuwata and music by Tokuzō Tamura.

Like “The Voices of Insects,” it appears to have been created with an educational purpose: to help children learn the names of insects and their calls.

The children’s song singer Ayako Nōjo is the daughter of Benjirō Nōjo, who, along with Tokuzō Tamura and others, edited collections such as “Songs for Young Children” and “Elementary School Songs.”

The caterpillar came out.

[Hand Play Song] From Inside the Cabbage [A Sunny Day with Children]

It’s a traditional fingerplay song of unknown authorship.

Each of the five fingers represents a green caterpillar in the family—the father, mother, older brother, older sister, and baby—and in the end they turn into butterflies.

Since it’s relatively difficult to extend only the ring finger, this activity tends to be more suitable for older children compared to similar games.

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Warabe-uta Selection No. 77: “Hachi-Hachi Gomenra” – Theater Company ZERO Kawabatakei

It’s a children’s song.

The lyrics mean something like, “Mr.

Bee, I’m still just a child, so please don’t sting me.” When the song ends, the child playing the bee pretends to sting another child with a finger, and the one who gets stung becomes the next bee.

It’s often played in a circle, similar to ‘Kagome Kagome.

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March of the Honeybees

Kawazoe Piano School lesson scene: “The March of the Bumblebee” (Kindergarten, middle year)

It’s a piece with an unknown composer to which Yasuyuki Ouchi, a children’s song lyricist and children’s literature author, wrote the words.

It is well known as a beginner practice piece for piano and Electone.

The same melody is also sung with different lyrics under the title “Puppy March.”

Fluttering butterfly

Fluttering butterfly

It is one of the many children’s songs that use “butterflies” as their theme.

Because the titles are similar—such as “Fluttering Little Butterfly,” “Rapeseed Flower Butterfly,” “Little Butterfly,” and “The Magic Butterfly”—please take care when searching.

Kurumi Kobato was a children’s song singer who enjoyed immense popularity in the 1950s and 1960s, and she was also a child actress.

We Siblings, Ladybugs

"We Siblings, Ladybug" Original backing track cover / Vocal: takimari

It was the theme song of the TV anime “The Song of the Ladybug,” which aired from 1974.

Since the protagonist is one of seven siblings, the title is inspired by the seven-spotted ladybug, and this motif is shared by the insert songs “Nanahoshi Tentou Hoshi Nanatsu” and “Ladybug March.” All of these songs are sung by Mitsuko Horie, who is known as one of the Four Queens of Anison.