Saburo Kitajima -- Satsuma no Hito（薩摩の女）

I've come across another one of Saburo Kitajima's（北島三郎）entries in his 『女』-titled series of songs which started all the way back in 1965 with "Hakodate no Hito"（函館の女）and includes "Onomichi no Hito"（尾道の女）.  This time, it's "Satsuma no Hito" (Woman of Satsuma).

The travelogue and the lady take us to Kagoshima at the southern tip of Kyushu, which was once known as the Satsuma Domain back in the Edo Era. This February 1968 enka tune by Sabu-chan has got plenty of oomph with that rat-a-tat brass as the singer tries to soothe away the melancholy of a woman recovering from heartbreak in this city that has been called "The Naples of the Eastern World", according to Wikipedia.

(empty karaoke version)

Created by the same duo behind the "Hito" series, Tetsuro Hoshino and Nobuo Shimazu（星野哲郎・島津伸男）, Kitajima seems to be cheering up the forlorn lass through a tour of Kagoshima via places such as Kagoshima Bay and Tenmonkan Avenue in his usual chivalrous fashion. There's always that feeling of pride in his voice.