A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the shamisen (Japanese three-stringed lute). Becoming a goze due to her blindness at seven-years-old, Haru was strictly trained with a parent's affection by her once kind mother, Tome.
Born in Niigata Prefecture, Niigata City, central area. Enka singer and actress. Real name is Sachiko Hayashi.