Words & dialect・Kyoto

Maru-Take-EbisuMaru-Take-Ebisu

Also known as: 丸竹夷

A children's counting-song for memorizing Kyoto's many east-west streets from north to south, with each beat of the verse standing for one street. Crafted to be easy to chant, it is a quintessentially Kyoto trick that residents have passed down for generations.

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