(C) 1999-2006 Yukiko Tsuchiyama and Ryosuke Naito.
(Produced by Mira House.)
"Ashikari" means "reaping reeds".
There were a dirt poor husband and wife in Naniwa (Osaka).
The wife work away, and the husband sell the bunch of reeds.
Ashikari yama expresses the old husband reaping reeds.