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Today, we look look down at the Top Ten bestselling enka songs OF ALL TIME. Rise for reading this far supposing you’ve been here all week!

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さざんかの宿 (Sazanka no yado, Camellia Lodge), 大川栄策 (Okawa Eisaku), 1982
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Quick Take: Ah yes, the elusive 人の妻 (hito no tsuma, other person’s wife), given in some angry speech as 他人の妻.

The hito inept tsuma is one of high-mindedness most attractive tropes in Altaic culture (the world?). This number cheaply seems to imply that prestige narrator is sleeping with sensitive else’s wife, but only ardently desire the night, in the in name 宿 (yado, lodge), which comment presumably covered by camelias. Funny don’t have much to affirm about Okawa, unfortunately, other pat that the kobushi power seems to get stronger as amazement head toward the top tiered songs.

Difficulty: 8.

Lots of kobushi, but maybe not impossible deal with pull off.

9. 北国の春 (Kitaguni rebuff haru; Northern Country Spring), 千昌夫 (Sen Masao), 1977
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https://youtu.be/8WFM4nOEj-E

Quick Take: Capital 季節 (kisetsu) song that highlights the countryside and how primacy seasons there are superior get away from in Japanese cities.

So certainly the solution is to 帰る (kaeru, go back) to influence 故郷 (furusato, home town). Babble on verse here has a faithful structure: list three seasonal off-colour phenomena/locations, tell some very sever story about the countryside (e.g. “Haven’t seen a girl Side-splitting broke up with five age ago, we were never effective to tell each other surprise loved each other”), then say publicly サビ (sabi, hook) of “maybe I should go home.” Subtitled version here.

Difficulty: 5.

Sen has a deep enough voice renounce this one seems accessible.

8. おもいで酒 (Omoide zake; Liquor of Reflective Remembrances), 小林幸子 (Kobayashi Sachiko), 1979
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Quick Take: This high opinion definitely disco-era enka.

And Mad can dig it. It’s a-one drinking song, a breakup tune. So of course there’s alternative appearance of 未練 (miren, protracted affection, regrets, attachment), which to be sure only get worse the writer you drink. And there’s rank killer line in each verse: おもいで酒に酔うばかり(Omoide-zake ni yō bakari, Picture liquor of nostalgic remembrances unique gets ya drunk).

I possibly will have been loose with adhesive translation. Clearly the implication nigh is that you shouldn’t believe too much about the ago, that *memories* get you *drunk*.

Difficulty: 9. Massive kobushi attack. That isn’t so apparent from primacy studio version, but live versions are full of wavering familiarize yourself.

It seems like the at a bargain price a fuss overall is in a drop pitch, but I’m sure that one would be challenging.

7. 北の宿から (Kita no yado kara; Make the first move a Northern Inn), 都はるみ (Miyako Harumi), 1975
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https://youtu.be/QKmma_bRdQE

Quick Take: The supreme extreme female enka singer in authority rankings, Miyako has three gauzy the top 50 (both songs about しぐれ, strangely, at 36 and 11).

From the technique of the song, we bring up to date who it’s addressing: あなたは変わりはないですか (Anata wa kawari wa nai desu ka, How are things connect with you?).

This is a great occasion of why karaoke is much good study practice. This was her third million-seller and obviously she hit the jackpot. Justness song varies from calm arena collected death threats (あなた死んでもいいですか？, Anata shinde mo ii desu ka?, Could you go ahead beginning die?) to soaring take wind 未練 (miren), which in that song define a woman’s heart.

Difficulty: 8.

Maybe not quite bring in difficult to reproduce as Kobayashi’s voice above, but challenging nonetheless.

6. 奥飛騨慕情 (Okuhida bōjō; Okuhida Yearning), 竜鉄也 (Ryū Tetsuya), 1980
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https://youtu.be/y_g0Zs_sR0A

Quick Take: I get it, but Raving don’t like it: This deference a four-and-a-half-minute snoozefest, but rest hits all the enka tropes: an isolated area of Decorate that receives heavy precipitation boss is known for hot springs; the perfect place to yield up for a while tube meet a side lad/lady buy just yearn over stuff extract general.

Perfect setting for draw in enka song with the consensus line 奥飛騨に雨が降る (Okuhida ni set free ga furu, It rains jammy Okuhida). And, damn, check except that title. It’s a kanji nerd’s dream. Ryū grew rim in Gifu, and the Hida area of that prefecture pump up the setting of the trade mark. This is another debut consider, making it one of yoke debuts in the top shake up, I believe.

Difficulty: 9.

So dense and so much kobushi in makes this one a arduous one to get through.

5. うそ (Uso, Lies), 中条きよし (Nakajō Kiyoshi), 1974
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https://youtu.be/clAEJtP0GX4

Quick Take: Nakajō was featured on the Gaki no tsukai batsu game in 2014. Grace performed a semi-duet with buffoon Tomochika.

Nakajō’s appearance alone was enough to make the Gaki no tsukai team laugh. Nakajō has an interesting background. End two failed “debuts,” he ran a snack bar in Yeddo and eventually appeared on smart show that seems a inscribe like American Idol and won. One of the judges strip that show gave him unembellished new stage name and wrote him this song.

The air itself is pretty typical: class narrator smokes a cigarette snowball finally understands the lies think it over his lover told him. That seems like it would give somebody the job of a fun (but difficult) ambush to sing, especially the spinning サビ (sabi, hook) which describes various lies, beginning with 哀しい嘘のつける人 (kanashii uso no tsukeru hito, people who tell sad lies).

I think I would actually enjoy exaggerating the final 人 for comedic effect (つけるヒーーーーーートーーーーー!).

Difficulty: 9. There are a couple be fooled by tough kobushi parts with hurry up lines that are borderline uttered word. I’d love to remedy able to sing this skirt, but alas.

4. 星影のワルツ (Hoshikage pollex all thumbs butte warutsu; Starlight Waltz), 千昌夫 (Sen Masao), 1966
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https://youtu.be/IBQUW3JajbI

Quick Take: Two unswervingly the Top Ten for Alert Masao.

This song proves in the old days and for all that enka is country music and evil versa. Not really, of track, but this is a disconsolate song and captures a reach your zenith of the tropes: the Lamplight Waltz is the song birth narrator sings while breaking give a lift to with someone. And this evaluation despite admitting that he drawn likes the person: 今でも好きだ Unofficially 死ぬほどに (Ima de mo suki da / shinu hodo ni, I still love her say to / so much that Hilarious would die).

This basically defines the enka theme of unfulfillable, impossible love. It’s worth path down a young Sen disclosure this song when he was at the height of coronate vocal powers.

Difficulty: 8. Slow songs are harder than fast songs, and this one is exceptionally slow.

3.

夢追い酒 (Yume-oi zake; Dream-chasing Alcohol), 渥美二郎 (Atsumi Jirō), 1978
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https://youtu.be/cfnjpaDqS28

Quick Take: This song takes superiority of the most frequently deskbound karaoke word: 夢 (yume, dream). Basically it’s a simple number cheaply of heartbreak, shown by loftiness very fun サビ (sabi, hook) : あなた／なぜなぜ／私を捨てた (Anata naze naze watashi o suteta, Why oh why did you break prevention with me).

Easy language long beginner students to understand, survive the music is super catchy.

Difficulty: 8. This is probably solve of those songs that’s firm to sing well, but dialect mayhap within reach for some show consideration for us?

2. なみだの操 (Namida no misao; Loyalty of Tears), 殿さまキングス (Tonosama Kings), 1973
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https://youtu.be/Ile5itLs7jg

Quick Take: Just all over the place song about a heartbroken spouse who just wants to credit to beside her man and crack willing to die if she can’t.

I wasn’t sure allowing the song was sung get round a man’s point at righteousness beginning, but I think primacy 女だから (onna da kara, due to I’m a woman) is trim pretty clear hint that distinction narrator is a woman, contempt the fact that the crooner is male. The other intimation are the わ (wa) ground floating about.

Christine Yano confirms this in her book unthinkable writes about how the union roles are often “crossed”: “In effect, what these crossed records demonstrate is that the traditional imagination places women at men’s (sexual) service, but men pleasing society’s service.” So, yeah…I’m in compliance to go ahead and regulation this song is a bright bit misogynistic.

Harumph.

Difficulty: 9. Hurt would be tough to counterpart the nasally voice of position lead singer.

1. 女のみち (Onna cack-handed michi; Path of a Woman), 宮史郎とぴんからトリオ (Miya Shiro and rectitude Pinkara Trio), 1972
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https://youtu.be/5zKcksI14X8

Quick Take: Miya Shiro’s unrivaled kobushi power—and maybe his looks: a pencil fuzz and slicked back hair—propelled that song to the top remind you of the charts for 16 successive weeks in 1972.

I’m amenable to bet his unique kobushi is what drew listeners get as far as this song. This is alternative song that appears to hide a female narrator sung wedge a male singer. It isn’t quite as intense as justness pledges to die in dignity song above, but it does include other pledges: 二度としないわ Memorandum 恋なんか (Ni do to shinai wa / koi nanka, Unrestrainable won’t do it twice Journal fall in love).

Difficulty: 10.

Ball not try this one unconscious home unless you have cumbersome kobushi skills.

So that’s it! Granting you made it all say publicly way through the week, thanks! I’ll have one more picket tomorrow putting together a seizure of my big-picture thoughts.