Tōsha Rosen VI
(born 1944) is a Japanese percussionist in the tradition of traditional Japanese dance and drama, the sixth ''iemoto'' (head) of the Tōsha school. He specializes in the ''taiko'' and ''tsuzumi'', and performs as a member or leader of the ''hayashi'' (musical accompanists) in the kabuki theatre, as well as in a variety of other traditional contexts. Born in 1944, his father was the 4th Tōsha Rosen. He began studying percussion under his father at the age of six, focusing upon the ''ko-tsuzumi'', a small hand-drum. He later studied ''taiko'' under the 5th Tōsha Rosen, ''nagauta shamisen'' under Kondō Chōjūrō II, Kondō Ayako, and Kineya Katsuroku, and '' kiyomoto-bushi''Another style of theatrical narrative chanting accompanied by shamisen. under Kiyomoto Jukuni-tayū. He made his first appearance on stage in 1954, at the ''Kyoto Gion Kaburenjō'' (Song and Dance Practice Hall), under the name Tōsha Toshiaki. He then took up the name Tōsha Naritoshi in 1968, and mad ...
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