Shinosuke Tatekawa

Shinosuke Tatekawa is a rakugo performer. His real name is Teruo Takeuchi. With his comic group, Rokunin-no-Kai, formed in 2003, he has helped to popularise rakugo among young Japanese people. He is also well known as a TV presenter, and has presented the primetime NHK General show Tameshite Gatten since it started in 1995. Tatekawa received the grand prize Sponichi Art& Culture Award in 2008 for "Shinosuke Rakugo in Parco".