"Shoten New host Shota & New member Announcement SP". Press conference after broadcast 1 

Sanpei Hayashiya, Selected for "Shoten" by forties' youth & "unprecedented character"
On May 29th, Rakugo Storyteller Sanpei Hayashiya (Real name: Taisuke Ebina) (45), new member of Oogiri Corner of NihonTV's long-lived entertainment program "Shoten", participated in the press conference after broadcast together with other members.
Being offered in March and has kept secret even from his wife - actress Sachiko Kokubun since, Sanpei revealed that "My heart is beating fast as I didn't let my wife know", and about the first broadcast "Personally, I would mark 20 points. There are still more to come. I think that the time thinking after the question was asked is quite long. I'm honored and privileged to be a Rakugo teller", said with enthusiasm.