In 1914, Sumako Matsui's song "Katyusha's song", composed by Shinpei Nakayama, was used as a theme of the rendition "Resurrection" in Japan. The record of the song sold 20,000 copies. One theory holds that this was the first "ryūkōka" song, which was made by Hogetsu Shimamura's order: "the tune between Japanese popular folk music and Western music". However, street performers called had been popular until record labels such as the Victor Company of Japan began to produce songs in the early Shōwa period.