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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Akio Morita, Empress K ken, Kon Ichikawa, Shigechiyo Izumi, Toru Takemitsu, Tetsuz Iwamoto, Emperor Higashiyama, Okita S ji, Takeo Kimura, Yasuharu Hasebe, Motojir Kajii, Prince Chichibu, Emperor Go-K my, Sadamichi Hirasawa, Takasugi Shinsaku, Tetsur Tamba, Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Prince Fushimi Sadanaru, Masaoka Shiki, Takuboku Ishikawa, Shu Uemura, Kunikida Doppo, Tetsugoro Yorozu, Princess Takamatsu, Kuga Katsunan, Takayama Chogy, Uchida Kuichi, Shigeru Aoki, mura Sumitada, Edmund Morel, Shimaki Kensaku, Senkichi Taniguchi, Fujio Akatsuka, Chushiro Hayashi, Prince Takeda Tsunehisa, Numa Morikazu, Tachihara Michiz, Kasai Zenz, Tatsuo Hori, Charles Dickinson West, Takeshi Watabe, Katsuko Saruhashi, Ichiy Higuchi, Kinoshita Rigen, Mitoyo Kawate, Alexander Cameron Sim, Yagi J kichi, Rentar Taki, K jir Kusanagi, Tokuji Wakasa. Excerpt: Toru Takemitsu Takemitsu T ru, October 8, 1930 - February 20, 1996) was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu possessed consummate skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre. He drew from a wide range of influences, including jazz, popular music, avant-garde procedures and traditional Japanese music, in a harmonic idiom largely derived from the music of Claude Debussy and Olivier Messiaen. In 1958, his Requiem for strings (1957) gained international attention, led to several commissions from across the world and settled his reputation as one of the leading Japanese composers of the 20th century. He was the recipient of numerous awards, commissions and honours; he composed over 100 film scores and about 130 concert works for ensembles of various sizes and combinations. He also found time to write a detective novel and appeared frequently on Japanese television as a celebrity chef. In the foreword ...
