Kawachiya Kikusuimaru (æ²³å 家 èÂÂ水丸) (born 14 February 1963) is a Japanese musician and singer. He is a singer of Kawachi ondo folk music from Yao, Osaka.
Born in Yao, Osaka, he started studying Kawachi ondo with his father, Kawachiya Kikusui, at the age of nine. He came to national attention in 1991 with his reggae-style song "Kakin Ondo" (ã«ã¼ãÂÂã³é³é Â, kaakin ondo) which was featured in a television commercial for recruitment magazine "From A" (ãÂÂãÂÂã ãÂȋ¨ã¼). Kawachiya is known for performing in a wide variety of countries, from Hawaii in 1983 to Baghdad in 1990 (at the Iraq for peace festival) and Pyongyang in 1995.
He is also a writer and newspaper contributor. One of his published works is Kikusuimaru's Scrapbook (èÂÂ水丸ã®ã¹ã¯ã©ãÂÂãÂÂå¸Â), a collection of his articles for the Osaka Shimbun newspaper.