Hako Yamasaki

山崎ハコ (Yamasaki Hako, real name 安田初子, Yasuda Hatsuko, née 山崎) is a Japanese singer-songwriter, actress and writer born on May 18, 1957 in Hita, Ōita Prefecture, Japan. A pioneer of the folk-boom in 1970s Japan, Hako Yamasaki has had an intensive output, releasing 22 albums from 1978 to 2011. After the folk-boom passed in the 1980s and Japan culturally moved to city pop, Yamasaki almost came close to homelessness due to the underwhelming sales of her albums. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.