San'yūtei Enraku VI | |
Birth Name: | Yasumichi Ai |
Native Name: | 6代目 三遊亭 円楽 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Birth Date: | 8 February 1950 |
Birth Place: | Sumida, Tokyo, Japan |
Nationality: | Japanese |
Education: | Aoyama Gakuin University |
Genre: | Rakugo |
Notable Works: | Shōten |
was a Japanese rakugo comedian known for performing on the Shōten comedy show on Nippon TV.
Born, he used Enraku as his stage name. He was known as a master of the Japanese comic art of rakugo, in which a single performer or storyteller appears on stage and tells comedic stories to the audience.
While a student at Aoyama Gakuin University, he began studying rakugo under San'yūtei Enraku V.[1] His first stage name was, until he inherited his teacher's name in March 2010.[2]
Enraku was a producer of the Hakata Tenjin Rakugo Matsuri, a rakugo festival held in Fukuoka city from 2007.
On January 25, 2022, Enraku's agency announced that he suffered from a cerebral infarction, further complicated by his ongoing treatment for lung cancer. After his hospitalization, rakugo artists who had a close relationship with Enraku served as guests on Shōten.[3] He died on September 30, 2022, at the age of 72.[4]