As a singer, he was known as one of the three "Gosanke" (referring to gosanke, the three great Tokugawa houses), along with Yukio Hashi and Kazuo Funaki.
As a singer, he was distinguished as one of the three "Gosanke" (referencing gosanke, the three prominent Tokugawa families), alongside Yukio Hashi and Kazuo Funaki.