Editing Enka (section)

{{Short description|Japanese music genre}}
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| name              = ''Enka''
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| cultural_origins  = 1950s, Japan
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{{Nihongo|'''''Enka'''''|演歌}} is a Japanese music genre considered to resemble traditional Japanese 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 [[Interwar period|prewar]] years.<ref>Christine Reiko Yano. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=SnGY9XQj0ocC&pg=PA42 Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200515103603/https://books.google.com/books?id=SnGY9XQj0ocC&pg=PA42 |date=2020-05-15 }}''. ''[[Google Books]]''. via Harvard Univ Asia Center. 2003. 42. {{ISBN|978-0-674-01276-9}}</ref>

Modern ''enka'', as developed in the postwar era, is a form of [[Sentimental ballad|sentimental ballad music]]. Some of the first modern ''enka'' singers were [[Hachiro Kasuga]], [[Michiya Mihashi]], and [[Hideo Murata]].<ref name="ntv">{{cite web|date=2008-10-22|title=The day that enka singer Hachiro Kasuga died|url=http://www.ntv.co.jp/omoii-tv/today/081022.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200418/http://www.ntv.co.jp/omoii-tv/today/081022.html|archive-date=2016-03-04|access-date=2009-02-09|publisher=[[Nippon Television]]|language=ja}}</ref> The revival of ''enka'' in its modern form is said to date from 1969, when [[Keiko Fuji]] made her debut. The most famous male ''enka'' singers are [[Shinichi Mori]] and [[Kiyoshi Hikawa]].