Oden no Uta
おでんの唄
A music video for the song "Oden no Uta" by Ichiza Arakaruto was created for NHK's Minna no Uta program. The short film features animated visuals accompanying the folk song, which celebrates the Japanese comfort food oden, a winter dish of various ingredients simmered in a light broth. The video was broadcast on the program and likely showed simple, charming illustrations of oden ingredients like boiled eggs, daikon radish, and fish cakes, matching the song's warm and nostalgic tone.
The video has since become lost media, with no known surviving copies. Its existence is only documented through references and descriptions from the time, making it a rare piece of anime history. Despite efforts to locate it, the original footage remains missing, leaving fans and researchers to rely on memory and written accounts to imagine what the animation looked like.
