Creating Enka - The 'Soul of Japan' in the Postwar Era - Wajime Yusuke Haunting & Unsettling For nearly a decade

For nearly a decade

returns to his native city of Thebes

and to the twilight of the era of French symbolism that was giving way to a new

"Only the few may relish this bitter fruit without danger

loneliness and multiplicity

Creating Enka - The 'Soul of Japan' in the Postwar Era - Wajime Yusuke Haunting & Unsettling For nearly a decadeCreating Enka: The "Soul of Japan" in the Postwar Era by Wajime Yusuke ISBN 9784990863630 a 288 page paperback, 5. 88 x 8. 25 inches, published by Public Bath Press (Japan, though their books are in English) *** When this prize winning (Suntory Best Non fiction 2010) history of the music known as Enka, one of the dominant forms of postwar popular music, appeared, it rearranged everyone's understanding of the history of postwar pop. Love it or hate it,