Kazuki Tomokawa

Kazuki Tomokawa (born Tenji Nozoki, 1950) is a Japanese singer, poet and self-taught guitarist from Hachiryū village (now Mitane) in Akita Prefecture. He came up in Tokyo's folk scene of the 1970s and released his first album in 1975. He is known for a raw, screamed vocal delivery, often in Akita dialect, and has been called the "screaming philosopher". Tomokawa began writing verse after discovering the poetry of Chūya Nakahara, and later released Nakahara Chuya Sakuhinshu.