was a Japanese tenor singer.

Biography

He was born in

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. His mother Kinu Sakata was a

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-player and a

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, worked in

Shimonoseki is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. With a population of 265,684, it is the largest city in Yamaguchi Prefecture and the fifth-largest city in the Chūgoku region. It is located at the southwestern tip of Honshu facing the Tsushim ...

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. Her mother was born in

too. His father,

Neil Brodie Reid Neil is a masculine name of Gaelic and Irish origin. The name is an anglicisation of the Irish ''Niall'' which is of disputed derivation. The Irish name may be derived from words meaning "cloud", "passionate", "victory", "honour" or "champion".. A ...

, (November 30, 1870 – January 19, 1920) a

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merchant, worked for Holme Ringer & Co., however he was not raised by his father. Tokuzaburō Fujiwara adopted him, from whom he received the family name "Fujiwara". Even so, his true father met him later in his life and put Yoshie into school. Yoshie's mother died in his youth, and Reid remained a bachelor all his life. Reid's grave is in Shimonoseki and Reid's boarding house later became the "Fujiwara Yoshie Memorial Museum". In 1934, he established the

Fujiwara Opera The is an opera company located in Tokyo, Japan, and is notably that nation's first and oldest professional opera company. Historical overview It was founded in 1934 by operatic tenor Yoshie Fujiwara. Following World War II the company entered a ...

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/ref> and became a notable figure of Japanese opera history.

References

1898 births 1976 deaths Japanese operatic tenors Japanese people of Scottish descent Opera managers Musicians from Osaka Musicians from Yamaguchi Prefecture 20th-century Japanese male opera singers {{Japan-singer-stub