Kokontei Shinba
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Kokontei Shinba (古今亭 志ん馬) is a professional rakugo 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).
Second user
Real name: Morikawa Yujiro.
Third user
Took over the name in 1910.
Fourth user
Real name: Kanagawa Rinsaburo (1889-1961). Called colloquially Yokohama no Shinba ("The Shinba from Yokohama"). Took over the name in 1917.
Fifth user
Took over the name in 1924.
Sixth user
Took over the name in 1925.
Seventh user
Took over the name in 1943.
Eighth user
Real name: Inada Masafumi (1935-1994). Took over the name in 1966.
Ninth user
Real Name: Yoshino Keiichi (1958-2013).[1] Took over the name in 1997.
External links
References
- ^ "古今亭志ん馬さんが死去" (in Japanese). Sankei Shimbun.
- 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、ISBN 458212612X