Rakugo artist Konpei Hayashiya (Hayashiya Konpei, real name Mitsuo Kasai = Kasai Mitsuo) died of aspiration pneumonia at 2:02 pm on the 17th. He was 77 years old. The Rakugo Association of my affiliation announced on the 21st. It is said that the funeral was held on the 19th only by close relatives. A farewell party will be held after the spread of the new corona virus has subsided.

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Konpei is from Chitanizawa village, Niigata prefecture, and studied with the first Hayashiya Sanpei. Since 1966 (Showa 41) in the second era, he has appeared in the Japanese television series “Laughing Point”. After Mihira died in 1980 at the young age of 54, he led the Hayashi family.

However, in August 2004, he was hospitalized with pain in the voice band. Although he was discharged in 2005, he announced that he had developed multiple sclerosis (MS). “Laughter Point” was also canceled, and long-term rehab continued after that. At the “Rakugo Table Tennis Club” 20th anniversary party, which he oversees in June 2007, he appeared in public for the first time in 2 years and 10 months. In September 2007, he appeared as a bird in the “Hayashiya Sanpei Osamu Hayashiya Ichimonkai” and was showing his “Charan” story for the first time in three years.

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In recent years he attended a party held in Tokyo on August 22, 2018 to celebrate the 4th anniversary of “Toden Rakugokai”, who has presided over since 2014. At the table, he said: “Thank you. I did not speak, but 1, 2, 3, Charan, “and showed a family joke:” I’m happy. I’m much better. I feel good. “