Tadashi Manjōme

万城目正　/　まんじょうめただし

Japanese composer from Hokkaido, trained at Musashino Academia Musicae

January 31, 1905 – April 25, 1968　・　Hokkaido, Japan

From Hokkaido
Composer

My Take

Born in Hokkaido in 1905 and trained at Musashino Academia Musicae, Tadashi Manjome belongs to a generation of Japanese composers I genuinely admire from a distance — people who built careers without a stable medium to build them in. Radio gave way to film scores, film gave way to TV, and through all of it composers like him had to keep reinventing what music even meant to the audience. I like to think the Hokkaido upbringing left something in his sensibility — that northern cold and quiet tends to push composers either toward stark simplicity or something almost stubbornly lush, and either way it's interesting. He passed in 1968 at 63, which feels too soon, right as Japanese popular culture was about to explode globally. Whatever he left behind, the grounding he got at Musashino and the era he navigated make him worth knowing.

Overview

Tadashi Manjōme (1905–1968) was a Japanese composer born in Hokkaido. He studied music at Musashino Academia Musicae in Tokyo. He was active during a transformative era in Japanese music that spanned the rise of radio, film, and television. He passed away on April 25, 1968, at the age of 63.

1. Profile

Name (English): Tadashi Manjōme
Name (Japanese): 万城目正
Reading: まんじょうめただし
Born: January 31, 1905 – April 25, 1968
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aquarius / Snake (巳)
Origin: Hokkaido, Japan
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Active years: Unknown
Occupation: Composer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Musashino Academia Musicae
Debut: Unknown

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%87%E5%9F%8E%E7%9B%AE%E6%AD%A3