Tanko Bushi
炭坑節
| Game | Genre |
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| AC1 |
 (Folk Song) |
★2 (138) |
- | - | - | - |
| AC2 |
(Folk Song) |
★2 (138) |
- | - | ★1 (138) |
- |
| AC3 |
(Ondo) |
★3 (138) |
- |
- | ★1 (138) |
- |
| AC4 |
(Ondo) |
★3 (138) |
★4 (178) |
★2 (238) |
★4 (263) |
- |
| PS2 1 |
(Folk Song) |
★3 (138) |
★4 (178) |
★2 (238) |
★5 (238) |
- |
97.52
tanko (Tanko Bushi)Tanko Bushi (RT Version)
炭坑節（RT版）
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| Taiko RT |
(Folk Song) |
★2 (36) |
★2 (60) |
- | - | - |
88 ???The Tankō Bushi is one of the Japanese folklore songs you might be hearing during Bon Odori performances as one of the more popular ondo pieces to perform since the lat-XIXth century, largely due to its ties with Japan's rising industrialization process. The song, in fact, acts as a slow-paced march to dictate the daily working fare of a coal mines, which is also why live performances of it are very often starring moves and gesturs to call back to the miners' job such as shoveling coal, carrying it over one's shoulders and wiping out one's sweat after the motion!
In the original folk song's body lyrics -the same that is also in the Taiko-transplanted covers-, it's being mentioned the Miike coal mine, a Kyoho-era-opened facility whose course ran for over three centuries, leading the Fukuoka and Kumamoto prefectures' financial stability as the country's biggest coal mine ever opened and being recognized in 2015 as one of the UNESCO World Industry Heritage landmarks, on top of the many-recorded working incidents and the 1960 struggle surrounding it. With the Miike coal mine's shut down in 1997, later versions of the Tankō Bushi have replaced the 'Miike tanko' with with the dialectal 'Uchi no oyama', for a more generic meaning of "Our coal mine/pit".
The popular and short ondo ditty has been adopted for the first four arcade iterations of the Taiko no Tatsujin series, on top of receiving an additional female-lead cover version that is exclusive to the medical-rehabilitation-oriented Taiko RT Nippon no Kokoro cabinets. Debuting as a Kantan-only tune, the same chart would be used for the 2nd and 3rd arcades as the Donderful/Oni setting as well, before the song's port into the first PlayStation 2 game which uses the also-.introduced-on-PS2 Muzukashii chart instead. We'd have to wait for one final arcade release before the song got its unique Donderful chart, always charted in the 12ths like its ondo-lead precursors before (and after!) it. The genre labeling is also aflip-flopping kind of deal, as it was marked as a "Folk Song" for its earlier releases before becoming an "Ondo" track for Taiko 3 and 4.
