Why is Japanese traditional music so dark and gloomy?

That's the style of the Yamato people's performance songs, and the traditional Japanese ballads are all that kind of sad and gloomy feeling. You can see from the songs that the nature and thoughts of the Yamato people are of the worrying type. In the peaceful life, they think about the future, and that is why their traditional ballads and songs give people a sad and bleak feeling.

You can probably search for MP3s by typing in the type of song, or the type of traditional Japanese folk song.