ANO MACHI KONO MACHI
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Ano Machi Kono Machi belongs to one of the well-known poems written and composed by the duo Ujō Noguchi (1882-1945) and Shinpei Nakayama (1887-1952). It was made in 1923 for a children's magazine called Kodomo no Kuni (Children's Land). It told children not to stay too long outside and get home on time before nightfall, because - back then - there were not many laterns on the streets, especially in the countryside.