Kan Mikami (三上 寛) (b 1950)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kan_Mikami

His autobiography, A Life in Folk (and other bitter songs), was translated into English and published in 2017 by Public Bath Press of Nara, Japan.

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