:Yashiki Takajin

{{Nihongo|Takajin Yashiki|やしきたかじん|Yashiki Takajin|real name {{nihongo|Takaji Yashiki|家鋪隆仁|Yashiki Takaji}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/news/1625077.html|title=たかじんさん本名は「やしきたかじ（家鋪隆仁）」？ (Is Takajin-san's real name 'Takaji Yashiki'?)|publisher=Nikkan Sports Shinbunsha|date=2016-04-01|access-date=2016-12-11|language=ja}}}}, often referred to as simply {{nihongo|Takajin|たかじん}}, (5 October 1949 – 3 January 2014) was a Japanese singer and television personality.

Born in Nishinari-ku, Osaka, Japan,{{cite web|url=http://www.sponichi.co.jp/osaka/ente/200902/08/ente217424.html|title=やしきたかじん初メガホン…「映画を撮る」と明言 (Dust or palms have been the first megaphone ... "a film" and stated)|date=February 8, 2009|publisher=Sports Nippon|language=ja|access-date=14 January 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021141837/http://www.sponichi.co.jp/osaka/ente/200902/08/ente217424.html|archive-date=21 October 2012}}{{cite news|url=http://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/news/f-et-tp0-20140107-1240967.html|script-title=ja:やしきたかじんさん死去再復帰かなわず|date=7 January 2014|publisher=Nikkan Sports|language=ja|access-date=7 January 2014}} to a Zainichi-issei Korean father Gonzaburou ({{small|(unknown surname)}} 權三郞) and a Japanese mother Mitsuko Yashiki ({{langx|ja|家鋪光子}}), he started his singing career in the 1970s in Gion, Kyoto, and then moved to Shimokitazawa, Tokyo in 1980.

In 1981, he sang the theme song of the first movie of the Mobile Suit Gundam, Suna no Jūjika and it sold thirteen thousand CDs. He moved back to Osaka in 1982 and had been active mainly in the Kansai region since then. He sang many songs about Osaka such as Yappa Suki Yanen (1986), Osaka Koi Monogatari (1989), Nametonka (1990) and Tokyo (1993). He was popular in Kansai as a frank television presenter. Having made public his dislike of Tokyo, Takajin rarely made appearances on TV stations in Tokyo.{{cite news|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/08/national/cancer-claims-osaka-based-tv-celebrity-singer-takajin-aged-64/|title=Cancer claims Osaka-based TV celebrity, singer Takajin, aged 64|date=8 January 2014|publisher=Japan Times|access-date=8 January 2014}}{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.jp/2014/01/08/yashiki-takajin-not-popular-in-tokyo_n_4559802.html|title=やしきたかじんさん、知名度が東京で低い理由とは|date=8 January 2014|publisher=Huffington Post|access-date=8 January 2020}} He also kept a blacklist of people he wouldn't appear with.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}} His trademark was sunglasses. He wore them because of his taste and glaucoma.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}

In January 2012, he announced that he had been diagnosed with esophageal cancer, and that he would take a leave and concentrate on its treatment. He made a short comeback in 2013, but he died on January 3, 2014.{{cite news|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-01-07/singer-tv-personality-takajin-yashiki-passes-away|title=Singer, TV Personality Takajin Yashiki Passes Away|date=8 January 2014|publisher=Anime News Network|access-date=8 January 2020}}

Takajin owned five racehorses between years 1998-2006.{{cite web|url=http://db.netkeiba.com/owner/result/o_0kaRlXTEFkM/|title=家鋪隆仁の年度別成績|website=netkeiba.com|access-date=8 January 2014}}