of ryūkōka were developed from Western classical music. Ryūkōka ultimately split into two genres: enka and poppusu. Unlike enka, archetypal ryūkōka songs...

War II. Kayokyoku, though associated with ryūkōka, also refers to a specific musical genre unique from ryūkōka. For example, Kenji Yamamoto (山本健治) said...

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...

city pop, anisong, Vocaloids and VTubing. Japanese popular music, called ryūkōka before being split into enka and poppusu, has origins in the Meiji period...

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(古関 裕而, Koseki Yūji, August 11, 1909 – August 18, 1989) was a Japanese ryūkōka, gunka, march, fight song and film score composer. His real name was also...

和歌子), Japanese sports sailor Yoshio Tabata (田端 義夫, 1919–2013), Japanese ryūkōka and enka singer, songwriter, and electric guitarist Yūki Tabata (田畠裕基)...

September 22, 1999) was a Japanese female soprano chanteuse and popular music (ryūkōka) singer. She was dubbed the "Queen of Blues" in Japan. Awaya was born as...

appeared. First a new lyrical form called imayō (今様, modern style, a form of ryūkōka) emerged. Imayō consists of four lines in 8–5 (or 7–5) syllables. Usually...

Jazz Kayōkyoku Senji-kayō [ja] Gunkoku-kayō [ja] Radio calisthenics song Ryūkōka Shichōsonka (municipality song) [ja] Shōka [ja] Manshū-Shōka [ja] Shin-min'yō [ja]...

1923 Great Kantō earthquake. As ryūkōka singer "Ichirō Fujiyama", he signed with Nippon Columbia, though singing ryūkōka was a taboo for his school. Meeting...

Jazz Kayōkyoku Senji-kayō [ja] Gunkoku-kayō [ja] Radio calisthenics song Ryūkōka Shichōsonka (municipality song) [ja] Shōka [ja] Manshū-Shōka [ja] Shin-min'yō [ja]...

敏, Uehara Bin, August 26, 1908 – July 29, 1944) was a Japanese music (ryūkōka) singer and soldier. He was known for using naniwa-bushi's kobushi vocalism...

Shōji Tarō, December 11, 1898 – October 4, 1972) was a popular Japanese ryūkōka singer. He also used the aliases Shōji Shirō (庄司史郎), Asabuki Kaoru (朝吹薫)...

Jazz Kayōkyoku Senji-kayō [ja] Gunkoku-kayō [ja] Radio calisthenics song Ryūkōka Shichōsonka (municipality song) [ja] Shōka [ja] Manshū-Shōka [ja] Shin-min'yō [ja]...

廉太郎, Kita Rentarō, March 20, 1920 – September 15, 1940) was a Japanese ryūkōka singer from the early Shōwa era. Kita was born in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture...

Jazz Kayōkyoku Senji-kayō [ja] Gunkoku-kayō [ja] Radio calisthenics song Ryūkōka Shichōsonka (municipality song) [ja] Shōka [ja] Manshū-Shōka [ja] Shin-min'yō [ja]...

(田端義夫, Tabata Yoshio, January 1, 1919 – April 25, 2013) was a Japanese ryūkōka and enka singer, songwriter, and electric guitarist. His debut song "Shima...

Jazz Kayōkyoku Senji-kayō [ja] Gunkoku-kayō [ja] Radio calisthenics song Ryūkōka Shichōsonka (municipality song) [ja] Shōka [ja] Manshū-Shōka [ja] Shin-min'yō [ja]...

(born 1951), Polish politician Rentaro Kita (北 廉太郎, 1920–1940), Japanese ryūkōka singer Seiichi Kita (喜多 誠一, 1886–1947), lieutenant general in the Imperial...

for establishing the genre enka, though Koga considered that he was a ryūkōka composer. He wrote numerous songs for Ichiro Fujiyama and Hibari Misora...

February 19, 1970) was a popular Japanese baritone singer of jazz and ryūkōka in Shōwa era Japan. Nakano was born in Ōzu, Ehime on May 27, 1909. His...

Jazz Kayōkyoku Senji-kayō [ja] Gunkoku-kayō [ja] Radio calisthenics song Ryūkōka Shichōsonka (municipality song) [ja] Shōka [ja] Manshū-Shōka [ja] Shin-min'yō [ja]...

Hachirō (新田八郎) (October 14, 1908 – July 3, 1989) was a Japanese singer of ryūkōka, gunka, and opera. Nitta was born Takeuchi Shōichi (竹内省一) in the village...

Jazz Kayōkyoku Senji-kayō [ja] Gunkoku-kayō [ja] Radio calisthenics song Ryūkōka Shichōsonka (municipality song) [ja] Shōka [ja] Manshū-Shōka [ja] Shin-min'yō [ja]...

Jazz Kayōkyoku Senji-kayō [ja] Gunkoku-kayō [ja] Radio calisthenics song Ryūkōka Shichōsonka (municipality song) [ja] Shōka [ja] Manshū-Shōka [ja] Shin-min'yō [ja]...

芳江); February 2, 1915 – August 16, 2011) was a Japanese popular music (ryūkōka) singer. At of the end of World War II, she was one of the most popular...

artist from Kawasaki Japan Taro Shoji (東海林 太郎, 1898–1972), a Japanese ryūkōka singer Taro Sugimoto (杉本 太郎, born 1996), Japanese footballer Taro Teshima...

1970), real name Tatsuo Sasaki (佐々木 辰夫, Sasaki Tatsuo), was a Japanese ryūkōka singer. He studied music as an enka-shi or a street musician. At that time...

selling over 20,000 copies at the time. This was said to be the first ryūkōka song. After Shimamura died of the Spanish flu on November 5, 1918, she...