Nitto Records
Nitto Records was a Japanese record label, originally published by the company Nittō Chikuonki Kabushiki Gaisha established in Osaka on March 20, 1920. The label was also called the "Swallow Brand", because of their trademark artwork. Nitto was known as a prolific brand, with over 2,000 titles published in about five years.
Nitto Records
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- Nitto Records
- Founded
- 1920
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Nitto Records was a Japanese record label, originally published by the company Nittō Chikuonki Kabushiki Gaisha established in Osaka on March 20, 1920. The label was also called the "Swallow Brand", because of their trademark artwork. Nitto was known as a prolific brand, with over 2,000 titles published in about five years.
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In 1925, they were recognized as one of the two major labels in Japan at that time. The label produced numerous records of traditional Japanese music and art such as Jōruri, as well as solo plays of western music and orchestra recordings, although the latter remained small in the share of their overall production. (Nitto was) so tightly focused on traditional arts which made them late in responding to rapidly growing demand for popular music. Moreover, it was the retirement of Morishita, who was driving Nitto's marketing strategy all alone, that determined the fate of Nitto." The Swallow Nitto brand finally disappeared in 1942, when Dainippon Gramophone was absorbed by Kodansha, shareholder of King Records, to become only a production facility of the latter. Musicians who worked for the label included pop and jazz composer Ryoichi Hattori. Artists signed to the label included Korean soprano Yun Sim-deok. The British Library Sound Archive holds several Nitto 78 rpm discs of the nagauta genre in its collection.
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• Name — Nitto Records • Country — Japan • Illustration — A Nitto record label
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- 1.近代沖縄における録音メディアの導入、Chapter 4: ニットーレコード設立と活動の変遷, Miki Takahashi
- 2.『蓄音機 芸人の争奪戦 経営百態』東京朝日新聞 (1925, Tokyo Asahi Shimbun)
- 3.Consort of Nitto founder Shirayama's daughter.
- 4.『関西発 レコード120年 第7部 レコード各社興亡秘話 No.14』(1999, The Kobe Shimbun)
- 5.『関西発 レコード120年 第7部 レコード各社興亡秘話 No.15』(1999, The Kobe Shimbun)
- 6.Atkins, E. Taylor. Blue Nippon: authenticating jazz in Japan. Duke University Press. 133. 2001. 0-8223-2721-X.
- 7.Jun Yoo, Theodore. The politics of gender in colonial Korea: education, labor, and health, 1910-1945. University of California Press. 2. 2008. 978-0-520-25288-2.
- 8.World and traditional music: East Asia, British Library.
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