Enka
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Enka is a Japanese music genre. It is considered to resemble traditional Japanese music stylistically. Modern enka, however, is a relatively recent musical form which adopts a more traditional musical
Soeda Azenbō, enka-shi in the Meiji Period
The memorial museum of singer Hideo Murata
The 1984 monument of Naomi Chiaki's song covered by Takashi Hosokawa "Yagiri no Watashi" at Matsudo City
Ryūkōka
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Ryūkōka is a Japanese musical genre. The term originally denoted any kind of "popular music" in Japanese, and is the sinic reading of hayariuta, used for commercial music of Edo Period. Therefore, ima
Enka
…music stylistically. Modern enka, however, is a relatively recent musical form which adopts a more traditional musical style in its vocalism than ryūkōka music, popular during the prewar years. Modern enka, as developed in the postwar era, is a form of sentimental ballad music. Some of the first modern…
People's Honour Award winning singer Ichiro Fujiyama
Hideko Takamine and Taro Shoji
Noriko Awaya, the "Queen of Blues" in Japan
The lyric sheet of "Patriotic March"