Izumi Yukimura

On her 1974 album Super Generation, she sang Ryoichi Hattori's songs along with four popular musicians: Masataka Matsutoya, Shigeru Suzuki, Tatsuo Hayashi and Haruomi Hosono. Eri, who died in 1982, and Misora, who died in 1989, also recorded songs with Yukimura as a group in the 1950s, but those recordings had not been released for about 50 years because they each belonged to separate record labels. In 2004, their album including those songs was finally released for the first time. Her daughter is singer, actress, and painter Maria Asahina.

• Name — Yukimura Izumi 雪村 いづみ • Birth Name — Tomoko Asahina • Born — 20 March 1937 • Birthplace — Meguro, Tokyo, Japan • Genre — Jazz, rock and roll, pop • Occupation — Singer • Years Active — 1953–present • Label — JVC Izumi Yukimura is a Japanese popular singer and actress.

Yukimura, Eri, and Misora starred in a trilogy of hit musical movies for Toho, one of Japan’s main movie studios. These films were Janken Musume (So Young, So Bright), 1955, Romance Musume (Romantic Daughters), 1956, and Ohatari Sanshoku Musume (On wings of Love), 1957. On Wings of Love was Toho’s top grossing film that year.

• Alice in Wonderland (1951) (theme song for the Japanese release of Disney film) • So Young, So Bright (1955) • Romantic Daughters (1956) • Arashi (1956) • On Wings of Love (大当り三色娘, Ōatari Sanshoku musume) (1957) • The Badger Palace The Princess of Badger Palace (1958) • A Holiday in Tokyo (1958) • Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi (1959) • Kimi mo shusse ga dekiru (1964) • The Laughing Frog (2002)