Enka

Enka is a type of music from Japan that resembles traditional Japanese music. Modern Enka is a more recent form, but more traditional in style.^[1] Modern enka, as growing in the postwar era, is a form of sentimental ballad music.^[2]

Enka Media

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

References

↑ Christine Reiko Yano. Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song. Google Books. via Harvard Univ Asia Center. 2003. 42. ISBN 978-0-674-01276-9
↑ "The day that enka singer Hachiro Kasuga died" (in 日本語). Nippon Television. 2008-10-22. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2009-02-09.

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[1] Christine Reiko Yano. Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song. Google Books. via Harvard Univ Asia Center. 2003. 42. ISBN 978-0-674-01276-9

[ntv-2] "The day that enka singer Hachiro Kasuga died" (in 日本語). Nippon Television. 2008-10-22. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2009-02-09.

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