Product Description
Collection of various songs associated with Asakusa in Tokyo, throughout the twentieth century the centre of Japanese entertainment. Songs are from the Meiji, Taisho and Showa periods, with some of the recordings, such as Asakusa Opera, very rare. 2 CDs.
CD1
1. Teikoku Ongaku Dan (Imperial Music Band) / Yogaku Tennen no Bi 2. Umebozu Honensai / Osakusa Okuyama Kenbutsu 3. Bansho Tachibanaya / Mukashi no Asakusa Okuyama Onajimi Tamanori Ichiza 4. Shiun Goto / Tokyo Bushi 5. Tenge Shokyokusai / Yoko Gaeri (Eshigo Jishi Kaeuta) 6. Hachiro Otsuga / Hula Diaboro 7. Kintaro Shimizu, Shizuko Shimizu, Kikuko Inoue, Koichi Otani / Pinafore 8. Rikizo Tagaya / Kojo no Kane 9. Shinsei Kabu Gekidan & Fumiko Ando, Eijiro Toyama 10. Nihonbashi - Maruko / Coroque 11. Yoshinosuke Watanabe (violin), Heikichi Takeuchi (piano) / Kojo no Tsuki 12. Teiichi Yanagida, Tokuko Fujino / Ougon no Kuni 1, 2 13. Sumako Akashi / Ginza Suzume 14. Nobuko Hara / Seville no Rihatsushi 15. Kikuko Inoue, Shizuko Shimizu, Kintaro Shimizu, Koichi Otani / Bun Taisho 16. Tokyo Kagekiza-in / Jogun Shussei 17. Yumeji Maruyama, Goro Fujimura, Yoshiro Satomi / Carmen 1, 2 18. Goro Fujimura, Yumeji Maruyama / Hottokinasai (Asakusa version)
CD2
1. Shorakuten Nishimura, Ichiro Sugiura / Omoide no Asakusa (Yuki no Alps Chaplin no Kento) 2. Seiha Nakamura, Raiyu Ikoma, Atsuomi Miyagawa, Tenrin Morita, Bairyu Suzuki / Omoide no Asakusa (Sarutobi Sasuke Manyu-ki) 3. Saburo Somei, Rakuten Nishimura / Omoide no Asakusa (Meikin) 4. Seiha Nakamura, Teruyo Hama, Shoichi Kofujita / Omoide no Asakusa (Onore ga Tsumi) 5. Ryutaro Nakane, Tsuyako Fujita, Nijiko Kiyokawa / Hanayome Gakko (Jo, Ge) 6. Ryokuha Furukawa, Kikuyo Amano / Sannin Fu-san 7. Teiichi Nimura, Kenichi Enomoto / Soto na Mondane 8. Gokuro Sogashuka Ichiza / America wa Kinshu-koku (Jo, Ge) 9. Takiko Mizunoe / Camarado no Uta (Tomodachi wa Yoimono) 10. Yoshio Kawata & Milk Brothers / Chikyu no Ue ni Asa ga Kuru 11. Sanksho Yanagiya / Shinkon Hakone no Kibun 1, 2 12. Kingoro Yanagiya / Asakusa Kenbutsu (Jo, Ge) 13. Junsaburo Ban / Utau Nito-hei 14.Shunji Sakai / Santo Teishu 15. Yoshiwara Geiko Renchu / Yoru no Yoshiwara - Shinuchi Tsuji Nagashi 16. Sadaichi Nimura, Kikuyo Amano / Asakusa Koshin-kyoku 17. Ichiro Fujiyama / Asakusa no Uta
