Recorded from the live public broadcast of the NHK Broadcasting Entertainment Event on September 1, 1954. I have revised the introduction based on a comment I received on Facebook from Kirihiko Sanjin. Thank you. "I always listen to your music. This appears to be an audio recording from an appearance on the NHK Broadcasting Entertainment Event on September 1, 1954. Co-stars include Okina-ya Sanba's "Katabo" (Bunji IX) and Shunputei Yanagibashi's "Sokutsu no Nagi". I am impressed by Mr. Kanno's keen insight in leaving behind such valuable audio recordings." **************************************** Kishizawa Shikitatsu (December 25, 1895 - June 1, 1959) A female Tokiwazu musician and musician who sings Ukiyo-bushi. Real name: Nishikawa Tatsu. The old characters are Kishizawa Shikitatsu. From birth to retirement, he was born in Morishita-cho, Fukagawa to Kishizawa Bunzaemon and Tokiwazu Mojitao. He trained under his father from an early age and took the name Kishizawa Shiki Tatsu at the age of nine. Introduced by Yanagiya Kosan III, he made his debut at the lower-ranked Ryogoku National Flower Theatre in October 1909. He gained popularity with his tokiwazu and hand dancing, and shared the popularity of the Sanyu school's Tachibana Utako (real name Fujimoto, later Kishigami Kimi, Kiyomoto) and the Yanagi school's Kishizawa Shiki Tatsu (Tokiwazu). He was a long-time partner with Kishizawa Shiki Tae, wife of Shunputei Yanagishi VII. He retired in 1915 at the age of 21 when he got married, but divorced the following year and returned to the vaudeville hall. She remarried, but her husband was jealous, and she switched to Nagauta, saying that Tokiwazu was too sexy,[1] but her jealousy did not stop. She continued to work in a chaotic entertainment world, where the format of vaudeville performances was changing and performers' groups were breaking up and coming together, and she retired in 1920. She returned to the stage with "Nishikawa Tatsu" After the war, she got divorced and worked as a maid in a restaurant, while also performing music when asked by customers to make a living. However, literary critic Kobayashi Hideo told novelist and NHK Literary Section Chief Kubota Mantaro about a maid who was good at Tokiwazu. When they met, she was a Kishizawa-style Tatsu, so Kubota had her perform under her real name, Nishikawa Tatsu, on NHK Radio and at the Mitsukoshi Meijinkai, and in 1950 she joined the Rakugo Association and returned to the vaudeville. She was a musician who sang Ukiyo-bushi, inherited from Tachibana-ya Tachibana-nosuke, and also put a lot of effort into training the next generation. She received the 13th Art Festival Award. Kubota Mantaro praised his technique of reviving the Ukiyo-bushi "Tanuki" as a modern master, but Tachibana himself said that it was far from Tachibana's art. In his final years, he also gave one lesson to the first San'yutei Zensho (later the 5th San'yutei Enraku). Zensho paid no attention to him at the first lesson, but when he visited the next day and apologized for his ignorance and asked to train him again, this time he taught him carefully. Enraku reminisced that he must have been testing his mental preparation as a professional entertainer. While performing as a knee substitute for the 6th San'yutei Ensho's solo performance at Ningyocho Suehiro, he collapsed on the stage and was taken to Toranomon Hospital, but died the next day from a cerebral hemorrhage. On the day of the performance, he was in poor health, but told Ensho's wife, "It would be my greatest wish to die on the stage." His SP records include "Miho no Matsu," "Otsue Fuyu no Yoru," and "Ukiyo-bushi." He also left recordings for various broadcasting stations after the war. Source: Wikipedia