(born 1941) is a Japanese ''

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'' musician, one of a long line of

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musicians specializing in providing musical accompaniment in the ''

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'' theatre. Born in 1941, he began studying under his father, Tōsha Shūhō, from around the age of six.''Kabuki techō: Kabuki Official Data Book 2008''. Nihon Haiyū Kyōkai (Japan Actors' Association). 2008: Tokyo. p272. In 1958, he took on the name Tōsha Suihō, and made his first appearance onstage five years later, in a June production of "'' Ō-Edo Shuten-dōji''" at the

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. Meishō has been granted a number of awards, including the Osaka Prefecture Citizens' Arts Award in 1978, and the

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' Special Award for the Promotion of Creative Arts in 1979 and 1982; in the latter year he also won the Kyoto Rookie Award. Four years later, he won the Agency for Creative Affairs' Arts Festival Award for Excellency for his performance . He officially succeeded to the name Tōsha Meishō in 1989, becoming the second in the lineage to hold that name. A number of his relatives are also active musicians in ''kabuki hayashi'' or other traditional forms.

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