Nobuyasu Okabayashi Sanya Blues English Translation And Background

Sanya Blues was released by Okabayashi Nobuyasu in 1968. It’s a song that talks about the run-down Sanya neighborhood in North Eastern Tokyo. The area is known as a gathering point for all kinds of fringe dwellers from Yakuza to sex workers and also casual, and by-the-day workers. It is these laboring workers that Okabayashi …

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