<figure id="attachment_397272" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397272" style="width: 2250px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="6c1310e5"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/10/8bd691751c1a07324ebba431d03e90da.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-397272" class="wp-caption-text">Sanae and Reika Kouzuki descend on Koiwa, Edogawa-ku, the &#8220;Senbero&#8221; town. I feel the gorgeous atmosphere is floating &#8230;&#8230;</figcaption></figure>
<p> Koiwa, Edogawa-ku, Tokyo.</p>
<p> Koiwa, Edogawa-ku, Tokyo, is a town that retains a strong downtown atmosphere, and is lined with many cheap and delicious izakaya (Japanese-style pubs), which are known as &#8220;senbero. The current topic of conversation in such a place is the &#8220;gorgeous mother-daughter&#8221; singers Sanae and Reika Kouzuki, who released &#8220;Koiwa no Onna&#8221; in February of this year.</p>
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<p> They look like they would be more at home in Ginza or Akasaka than in Koiwa. That is why they are called the &#8220;Kano sisters of Koiwa&#8221; by their fans.</p>
<h2> Performing monthly at a live house in Koiwa, their hometown, for 18 years</h2>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I&#8217;ve lived in my hometown in Koiwa all my life. I&#8217;ve been living in my hometown Koiwa for a long time, and I&#8217;ve been singing songs dressed like this.</span></p>
<p> At the age of 28, she began her career as a singer when singer-songwriter Katsuhiko Miki wrote a song and sang the ending theme for &#8220;Gilgamesh Naito&#8221; (TV Tokyo), which was airing at the time. And for the past 18 years, she has been holding a live concert once a month at a local live house &#8220;Johnny Angel&#8221; without fail.</p>
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<p> She and her daughter, Reika, performed a duet of &#8220;Koiwa no Onna&#8221; (Onna of Koiwa).</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Miki wrote the song for me and my local friends to sing together, and about a dozen of us got together and said, &#8220;I want to do it! About a dozen of us got together and said, &#8220;I want to do it! But when it came time for lessons and recording, the gathering was not good and we couldn&#8217;t proceed. So I decided to sing with my daughter Reika.</span></p>
<p> In fact, mother and daughter released a song together 10 years ago. However, due to &#8220;certain circumstances,&#8221; they were unable to sing for a long time. &#8230;&#8230;</p>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" Daughter Reika is also a mandala artist."></div>
<figure id="attachment_397280" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397280" style="width: 2250px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="7b8c0dd6"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/10/a81e4c8ebfa766c0602028a5a669d200.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-397280" class="wp-caption-text">Koiwa&#8217;s live house &#8220;Johnny Angel&#8221; full of oldies atmosphere.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Mr. Masato Sugimoto, who is famous for &#8220;Ago Yabo,&#8221; wrote a song called &#8220;Koi wa Mystery,&#8221; which we both sang together. But at that time, Reika went to Osaka right after the release of the song. So, unlike 10 years ago, I would like to sing &#8220;Koiwa no Onna&#8221; with just the two of us this time.</span></p>
<p> A few years later, I returned to Koiwa, safe and sound (?). Reika has returned to Koiwa. She is now active as an artist who draws mandala paintings.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> I liked painting, but I didn&#8217;t study it when I was a student. But my mother encouraged me to try mandala painting, so I took a class. I was hooked. I started to take it seriously, and I have been creating my own original paintings with rhinestones and sparkling things.</span></p>
<p> Reika says that she never draws the same mandala twice. All of her mandala paintings are &#8220;one-of-a-kind,&#8221; and they are so popular that some cost several hundred thousand yen, and the most expensive ones are sold for several million yen.</p>
<h2> New Program to Start in November</h2>
<p> Sanae&#8217;s mother, Sanae, has been singing in Koiwa. Her daughter, Reika, is a popular mandala artist. The TV program &#8220;Koiwa no Onna no Onna no Jijo&#8221; (Chiba TV, BS12), hosted by the unique mother and daughter, will start on November 1.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> We would like to invite guests and talk with them for a full 30 minutes on the theme of &#8220;onna&#8221; (women) and &#8220;love. We mothers and daughters have a lot of experience in &#8220;love,&#8221; so we hope to hear a lot of &#8220;adult talk,&#8221; and we also hope to talk frankly.</span></p>
<p> In addition to their duet song &#8220;Koiwa no Onna,&#8221; Sanae and Reika Kouzuki are also trying their hand at TV shows. However, they are surprisingly &#8220;natural&#8221; in their appearance.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> To be honest, this is not a time when CDs sell well, and I don&#8217;t really have high expectations for them (laughs). I don&#8217;t really feel like I&#8217;m trying my best to sell them. I can&#8217;t decorate well, so I just show the mother and daughter as they are. At the live shows, I just show my drunken appearance as it is. &#8230;&#8230; (laughs).</span></p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> But I want everyone who comes to our live shows to enjoy themselves and leave not just saying, &#8220;The song was good,&#8221; but &#8220;It was fun today, too. It would be great if they laughed, said they were empowered, and left feeling energized.</span></p>
<p> The gorgeous visuals of the band give off a powerful singing ability that is hard to imagine. I now understand why Sanae and Reika Kouzuki are so loved in Koiwa.</p>
<figure id="attachment_397301" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397301" style="width: 3000px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="0d30b315"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/10/bf09ef2e173c9979fc1068661beeac95.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-397301" class="wp-caption-text"> The two passionately singing &#8220;Koiwa no Onna&#8221; (Onna of Koiwa)</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_397302" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397302" style="width: 2250px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="d4f7dbb4"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/10/fc04c198bd5913dfa5d7a5b8a0de6445.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-397302" class="wp-caption-text"> Mother Sanae Kouzuki has been performing once a month for 18 years at the Koiwa live house &#8220;Johnny Angel.</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_397303" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397303" style="width: 1108px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="bd47a2b1"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/10/0a2779e06d8f5f30c1275c269e69c56b.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-397303" class="wp-caption-text"> Her daughter, Reika Kouzuki, is also famous as a mandala artist.</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_397445" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397445" style="width: 1535px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="7d737a9d"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/10/4fd4b3a7eeb35c4dd6c63ce5e0b40af8.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-397445" class="wp-caption-text"> Reika Kouzuki&#8217;s mandala paintings (インスタグラム@mandala.reikaより) are handwritten, and she says that no two are ever the same.</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_397304" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397304" style="width: 1477px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="e0d37830"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/10/1a55802eb6daf483df185793ae72c753.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-397304" class="wp-caption-text"> Mother and daughter, Sanae and Reika Kouzuki, being interviewed</figcaption></figure>


 Norifumi Arakida (FRIDAY Digital Entertainment Desk)

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