noun
Yūyake Koyake (1919 children's song)
Title of a well-known Japanese children's song from 1919. The phrase itself is a poetic, reduplicative expression evoking the evening glow.
「夕焼け小焼け」は、日本の童謡として広く知られている。
"Yūyake Koyake" is widely known as a Japanese children's song.
Standard full title of the children's song.
Abbreviated kanji form, sometimes seen in older or compact references.
The title is a reduplicative phrase combining 夕焼け (evening glow) and 小焼け (a coined, diminutive form of 焼け, suggesting a smaller or lingering glow). The exact origin of the phrase is tied to the 1919 song by Ujō Noguchi.