The number of the tellers of rakugo stories steadily increased: TSUYU no Gorobe II, Matsunosuke SHOFUKUTEI and Bunga KATSURA (III) who all joined the rakugo world almost simultaneously with those new household names, Somemaru HAYASHIYA III who was their age though starting rakugo before the War, Somegoro HAYASHIYA (III), Bunko KATSURA (IV), Beishi KATSURA, and Kacho TSUKITEI, all of whom started in the late 1950s and were improving their skills as mid-level storytellers.
この二人とほぼ同時期に入門した露の五郎兵衛2代目、笑福亭松之助、桂文我(3代目)、戦前入門ながら彼らとは同世代の3代目林家染丸のほか、林家染語楼(3代目)、昭和30年代前半入門組の桂文紅(4代目)、桂米紫、月亭可朝などの中堅も力をつけてくるなど、落語家の人数も着実に増え始めた。