Hikotaro SASAMOTO (the founder of the Utazawa melody for shamisen [a three-stringed Japanese banjo], the first head of the school of this type of melodies, commonly called Sasamaru UTAZAWA)
笹本彦太郎（三味線歌曲のひとつ歌沢の創始者、初代家元、通称歌沢笹丸）