The man who loved the world Toru Takemitsu wrote great music and shaped Japan's modern cultural elite. But that's not how his family like to remember him. By Kevin Jackson

The Independent - London | October 1, 1998| | Copyright

Late last Thursday afternoon, I was sitting shoeless and cramped, and attentive, in the house of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe, listening to Japan's most illustrious modern writer reminisce about Japan's most illustrious modern composer: his dear friend, Toru Takemitsu.

Mr Oe - or, local style, Oe-san - had warned me in advance that I'd need to bring a translator along, because his English wasn't really up to snuff, but this proved to be unduly modest. Thanks, in part, to a recent stint of teaching at Princeton, Oe-san speaks a faltering but pretty serviceable version of our ...

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