Editing Enka (section)

=== 1920s–1940s: Era of ''ryūkōka'' ===
{{Main|Ryūkōka}}
In the early [[Shōwa period]] in the late 1920s, record companies produced ''[[ryūkōka]]'' in place of ''enka-shi''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.news.janjan.jp/column/0603/0603220226/1.php |script-title=ja:昭和流行歌の幕開け《波浮の港》 |author=Kiyomaro Kikuchi |publisher=[[JANJAN]] |date=2006-03-23 |access-date=2009-01-16 |language=ja |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071110184316/http://www.news.janjan.jp/column/0603/0603220226/1.php |archive-date=2007-11-10 }}</ref> ''Enka-shi'' began to use [[guitar]] and were dubbed {{Nihongo|''nagashi''|流し}}.<ref name=keio /> [[Haruo Oka]] debuted with the 1939 song {{Nihongo|"Kokkyō no Haru"|国境の春|lit. "Spring at the Border"}} on the Japanese record label [[King Records (Japan)|King Records]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news.janjan.jp/column/0608/0608300310/1.php|script-title=ja:異色歌手の登場：岡晴夫と田端義夫|publisher=[[JANJAN]]|author=Kikuchi, Kiyomaro|date=2006-08-31|access-date=2009-05-16|language=ja|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928233426/http://www.news.janjan.jp/column/0608/0608300310/1.php|archive-date=2008-09-28|url-status=dead}}</ref> However, the term ''enka'' became uncommon in the postwar years.<ref name=keio />