Takuya Maeda

Honestly, Takuya Maeda is one of those figures who has built a whole musical life around taiko, far from the spotlight his younger brother found with Remioromen. What I do know: he was born in June 1975 in Misaka-cho, a quiet little town in Yamanashi Prefecture tucked up near the foot of Mt. Fuji, and he went on to become a musician: a master of the Amano school of taiko, composer of the music for the Shingen-ko Festival, and a Yamanashi tourism ambassador with his own YouTube channel. But there's something I find genuinely compelling about imagining someone raised in that kind of still, mountainous landscape eventually choosing to make a life out of sound. Respect, honestly.

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Takuya Maeda is a Japanese musician born on June 6, 1975, in Misaka-cho (now Fuefuki), Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. A taiko drummer, multi-instrumentalist and composer, he is a master instructor of the Amano school of taiko and writes, sings and plays sanshin and drums in the unit Kaze Kaworu Toki; his younger brother is Remioromen bassist Keisuke Maeda.

Name (English)

Takuya Maeda

Name (Japanese)

前田タクヤ

Reading

まえだ たくや

Born

June 6, 1975 (age 51)

Origin

Mishaka-cho, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rabbit

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%89%8D%E7%94%B0%E3%82%BF%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11397375

Tags

• From Yamanashi Prefecture
• Musician

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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