Masato Tajino

Sakura is the Japanese word for 'Cherry Blossom'. It is also widely known as a traditional Japanese folk song depicting spring, the season of the cherry blossoms. The original melody uses a pentatonic...

A 'hayashi' is a group of performers who provide musical accompaniment for Japanese Noh or kabuki theatre. In Noh, they are purely instrumentalists; the type of instruments featured and the order in w...

This composition for clarinet choir with optional percussion is a modern medley of 3 famous Japanese folksongs: 'Zui Zui Zukkrobashi': a tragic Japanese fairytale describing the fear for high ranked S...