**"Genealogy of Naniwake and Red Silk - When Kakuei Tanaka's voice resounds" - circa 1979**.

**"Genealogy of Naniwake and Red Silk - When Kakuei Tanaka's voice resounds" - circa 1979**.

Kakuei Tanaka, who hummed a rokyoku, was more like a storyteller than a politician. Known as the "Dark Shogun of the Showa era," he favored a voice of righteousness and humanity that resonated with the hearts of the common people. At the source of his ryokyoku is Momochuken Unemon, and in the background is Genyosha's head, Mitsuru Touzan. Where ryokyoku and politics intersect, there are indeed reverberations of nationalism that have continued since the Meiji era.

The name "Rokusuke" began with Rokusuke Hakoda, the first president of Genyosha, continued on to Rokusuke Fujii of the Showa era, and then to Ichijiro Oya, an actor of the new school. The fact that these three men seem to be linked by a red silk thread can only be attributed to the fact that they were all involved in nankyoku and shinpa plays, as well as the swell of Japanese popular culture.

At the end of the 1970s, when the reverberations of Japan's rapid economic growth were still strong, art and politics were closer than ever before. Kakuei's storytelling was not merely a hobby, but also an expression of politics that represented the voice of the common people. What is nankyoku and what is politics? These questions have transcended the ages and still reverberate on stage.