12 ORIGIN It is worth remembering that composers such as Toshirō Mayuzumi, Tōru Takemitsu, and Teizō Matsumura, too, were pioneers who, more than half a century ago, explored their Japanese identity while studying Western music. The question that eventually confronted Ueno was, in essence, the same one they once faced.
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