This is a beautiful Japanese folk song, which I have arranged for young children to sing and play. The translation is an amalgam of the research I was able to do without the help of a speaker of Japanese, but I hope it captures the spirit of the song while remaining easy to sing. I have presented this in the form of a lesson outline with options for younger or older students differentiated along the way, culminating in a couple of options for a written assessment task. You could pick and choose