Tadashi Manjōme

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.

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.

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

Occupation

Composer

University

Musashino Academia Musicae

Motto

Private

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

Tags

• From Hokkaido
• Composer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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