Showing posts with label Masato Fujita. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Masato Fujita. Show all posts
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Guts Ishimatsu -- Ishimatsu Otoko Bushi（石松おとこ節）

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  Well, I wrote too soon when I posted my previous article on  Shocking Lemon's "Under Star" in tribute to the recently depa...
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Monday, January 19, 2026

Hiroshi Itsuki -- Akari ga Hoshii（灯りが欲しい）

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  Hard to believe that enka singer Hiroshi Itsuki（五木ひろし） will be turning 78 in a couple of months' time. I haven't seen him on the ...
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Yukio Hashi & Akiko Kanazawa -- Dai Tokyo Ondo（大東京音頭）

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  With Tanabata happening a couple of days ago, I figure that Japan has entered its annual weeks-long festival season. Lots of traditional d...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Hibari Misora -- Aru Onna no Uta（ある女の詩）

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  On the eve of what would have been Hibari Misora's（美空ひばり）87th birthday , NHK's "Uta Con" （うたコン） continued the annual tra...
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Friday, June 23, 2023

Katsuhiko Haida -- Oiwake Garasu (追分がらす)

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Continuing on the matatabi kayo  theme from my Bin Uehara (上原敏)   article , here's another number that features a wandering yakuza. By K...
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Monday, June 19, 2023

Bin Uehara -- Oya Koi Dochu (親恋道中)

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  Bin-san, otsukaresama deshita It'd been only a month since I started grad school when I had to do my first proper presentation. It was...
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Saturday, December 11, 2021

Bin Uehara/Tokyo Taishu Kayo Gakudan -- Tsuma-koi Dochu (妻恋道中)

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Look, Bin-san, it's Uehara Bin 2- err- I mean, Ko-san Looking at the two fellows above, one who didn't make it past 1945 and one who...
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Saturday, January 9, 2021

Akiko Kikuchi/Yuriko Futaba -- Ganpeki no Haha（岸壁の母）

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  As I've mentioned in the past, enka and Mood Kayo can have a number of lyrical themes including the trial and tribulations of work , ...
Saturday, March 14, 2020

Yukiko Ninomiya -- Matsu no Ki Kouta（まつのき小唄）

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Just to summarize our state of affairs under the current COVID-19 crisis in Toronto , schools, tourist attractions and sports teams ar...
Monday, February 20, 2017

Koji Tsuruta -- Kizu Darake no Jinsei （傷だらけの人生）

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The record cover among the pile of old 45"s that has remained in my memory the longest is in the picture above. At the time that I h...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Taro Shoji/Mika Shinno/Kiyoshi Hikawa -- Tabigasa Dochu （旅笠道中）

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Even before the Japanese started getting that reputation of traveling in group tours while armed with cameras back in the 1970s and 1980s...
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Friday, March 25, 2016

Hiroshi Itsuki/Kouhei Fukuda -- Tabigarasu (旅鴉)

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In my article regarding Ikuzo Yoshi's (吉幾三)  " Kadode " ( 門出 ), I mentioned that I had discovered that song via a video of p...
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Monday, May 11, 2015

Yoshio Tabata -- Otone Tsukiyo (大利根月夜)

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For the longest time I had wondered who this guy was. Occasionally I'd see him on really old song medleys or a still of him on a video ...
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