List of Japanese composers

This is a list of Japanese composers, ordered by birth date.

Shōka, Lied, children's song

• Isawa ShÅ«ji (1851–1917)
• Sakunosuke Koyama (1864–1927)
• Teiichi Okano (1878–1941)
• Rentarō Taki (1879–1903)
• Tadashi Yanada (1883–1959)
• Nagayo Motoori (1885–1945)
• Kōsaku Yamada (1886–1965)
• Shinpei Nakayama (1887–1952)
• RyÅ«tarō Hirota (1892–1952)
• Tamezō Narita (1893–1945)
• Kan'ichi Shimofusa (1898–1962)
• YÅ«ji Koseki (1909–1989)
• Yoshinao Nakada (1923–2000)

Classical and contemporary

Others

• Yatsuhashi Kengyo (1614–1685)
• Hiromori Hayashi (1831–1896)
• Nakao Tozan (1876–1956)
• Koga Masao (1904–1978)
• Masaru Sato (1928–1999)
• Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931–2021), 20th–21st-century music producer and BGM composer
• Koichi Sugiyama (1931–2021)
• Isao Tomita (1932–2016)
• Takeo Watanabe (1933–1989)
• Yasuo Kuwahara (1946–2003)
• Joe Hisaishi (born 1950), 20th–21st century film composer
• Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952–2023)
• Yoko Noge (born 1957)
• Shirō Sagisu (born 1957)
• Yoichiro Yoshikawa (born 1957), 20th–21st century music producer and composer
• Jun Miyake (born 1958)
• Nobuo Uematsu (born 1959), 20th–21st century musician and video game composer
• Akira Senju (born 1960)
• Koji Kondo (born 1961), 20th–21st century video game composer
• Michiru Oshima (born 1961), 20th–21st century film, television and video game composer
• Michiru Yamane (born 1963), 20th–21st century video game composer
• Hikari Ōe (born 1963)
• Shinkichi Mitsumune (born 1963)
• Yoko Kanno (born 1963), 20th–21st century music producer and composer
• Yuki Kajiura (born 1965), 20th–21st century music producer and composer
• Taro Iwashiro (born 1965)
• Yoko Shimomura (born 1967), 20th–21st century music pianist and video game composer
• Yasunori Mitsuda (born 1972)
• Hiroyuki Sawano (born 1980), 20th–21st century animation, film, television and video game composer

See also

• Japan Composer's Association

References