Tamezō Narita

Tamezō Narita was born in 1893 in the snowy, remote northern reaches of Akita Prefecture, and just that detail alone makes me stop and think. To grow up that far from any cultural center in Meiji-era Japan and still find your way toward music composition — that takes a particular kind of stubborn inner drive. He worked through an era of enormous upheaval, from the Meiji reforms through two world wars, and he died in October 1945, just weeks after the war ended, at only 51. There's something quietly devastating about that timing. He never got to see what came after. He left songs like "Hamabe no Uta" and studied counterpoint in Berlin, and though most of his orchestral work was lost in the air raids, I find myself genuinely moved by the image of someone in that era, in that place, just sitting with sheet music and trying to make something beautiful — not for fame, just because the melodies were there and needed to exist.

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Tamezō Narita (1893–1945) was a Japanese composer born in Kitaakita District, Akita Prefecture. He is remembered as one of the composers of the Meiji and Taisho eras who contributed to the development of Japanese Western-style music. He died on October 29, 1945, at the age of 51, the same year World War II ended.

Name (English)

Tamezō Narita

Name (Japanese)

成田為三

Reading

なりた ためぞう

Born

December 15, 1893 – October 29, 1945

Origin

Kitaakita District, Akita Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Composer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Snake

Active years

1916 - 1945

Works summary

Works

45

By year (titles with a known year)

1965: 1, year unknown: 44

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%88%90%E7%94%B0%E7%82%BA%E4%B8%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7681184

Tags

• From Akita Prefecture
• Composer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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