is a professional

rakugo is a form of ''yose'', which is itself a form of Japanese verbal entertainment. The lone sits on a raised platform, a . Using only a and a as props, and without standing up from the seiza sitting position, the rakugo artist depicts a long ...

name. As of October 2013, it had been used officially by 9 rakugo storytellers, and unofficially by 11. Since for the first two of them their years of birth and death are unknown, the 9th user of the name is sometimes considered to be the 7th user (for example, the Japan Rakugo Association's website).

List of users

# Details unknown # Real name: Morikawa Yujiro. # Took over the name in 1910. # Took over the name in 1917. Real name: Kanagawa Rinsaburo (1889-1961). Called colloquially ''Yokohama no Shinba'' ("The Shinba from Yokohama"). # Took over the name in 1924. # Took over the name in 1925. # Took over the name in 1943. # Took over the name in 1966. Real name: Inada Masafumi (1935-1994). # Took over the name in 1997. Real Name: Yoshino Keiichi (1958-2013).

References

*諸芸懇話会、大阪芸能懇話会共編『古今東西落語家事典』平凡社、

External links

Shinba Uebu

Japan Rakugo Association profiles
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