Tadatoshi Miyagawa


Tadatoshi Miyagawa is a Japanese composer, a Gagaku performer and researcher, as well as a music arranger. His former last and first name was Konoe Toshitake.

Career

He was born in the city of Osaka, Higashi-ku, Kyuhoji as the second son to Hidemaro Konoye of the Konoe family. His mother was Fumiko Tsuboi. His father, Hidemaro, registered his birth certificate at the East Ward city hall in Osaka on 22 July 1937.
On 19 October 1939, he was adopted by the youngest brother of his father Tadamaro Miyagawa and he was renamed Tadatoshi. His youngest memory was being in an atelier of Tadamaro in Sendagaya, Tokyo and has no recollection of his real birth mother.
While he was studying at the Gakushūin Elementary School they moved to Nara and he went to the elementary school which is attached to the women University in Nara and he also finished junior high and high school at the same school. Upon graduating high school he moved back to Tokyo and became assistant to Naozumi Yamamoto who is a composer and conductor.
In August 1962, he passed the exam to be a full scholarship student at the Madrid Royal Conservatory of Music in Spain. In 1963, he studied in the Berlin Municipal Conservatory of Music. His first daughter, Yoko, was born in Berlin, West Germany. In 1968, he returned to Japan just before his second daughter was born.
His brother Hidetake Konoe is also a composer and conductor. His wife, Sakiko, is the daughter of viscount Suefusa Ano from the Ano family of Northern Fujiwara clan. Sakiko was a classmate of his from the Gakushūin Elementary School in Tokyo where the children of the Imperial aristocracy were educated. His oldest daughter, Yoko Miyagawa, is a violinist and his second daughter Yuko Miyagawa is a cellist.

Movies

Folk song

Summer Festival them song :fr:Matsumoto Bon Bon

TV drama music

As a patrilineal descendant of the Konoe family, Miyagawa is a nephew of former Japanese Prime Minister Konoe Fumimaro, and is a first cousin once removed of both the former prime minister Hosokawa Morihiro and his brother Tadateru Konoe. By virtue of his descent from the Konoe family, he is related to the Japanese imperial family several times over. Also, as a great-great-grandson of Shimazu Narinobu, the ninth Lord of the Satsuma Domain, he is a third cousin once removed of the late Empress Kōjun and thereby a third cousin twice removed of the present Emperor, Akihito, and his siblings.

Patrilineal descent

Miyagawa's patriline is the line from which he is descended father to son.
  1. Descent prior to Keitai is unclear to modern historians, but traditionally traced back patrilineally to Emperor Jimmu
  2. Emperor Keitai, ca. 450–534
  3. Emperor Kinmei, 509–571
  4. Emperor Bidatsu, 538–585
  5. Prince Oshisaka, ca. 556–???
  6. Emperor Jomei, 593–641
  7. Emperor Tenji, 626–671
  8. Prince Shiki, ???–716
  9. Emperor Kōnin, 709–786
  10. Emperor Kanmu, 737–806
  11. Emperor Saga, 786–842
  12. Emperor Ninmyō, 810–850
  13. Emperor Kōkō, 830-887
  14. Emperor Uda, 867-931
  15. Emperor Daigo, 885-930
  16. Emperor Murakami, 826-967
  17. Emperor En'yū, 959-991
  18. Emperor Ichijō, 980-1011
  19. Emperor Go-Suzaku, 1009-1045
  20. Emperor Go-Sanjō, 1034-1073
  21. Emperor Shirakawa, 1053-1129
  22. Emperor Horikawa, 1079-1107
  23. Emperor Toba, 1103-1156
  24. Emperor Go-Shirakawa, 1127-1192
  25. Emperor Takakura, 1161-1181
  26. Emperor Go-Toba, 1180-1239
  27. Emperor Tsuchimikado, 1196-1231
  28. Emperor Go-Saga, 1220-1272
  29. Emperor Go-Fukakusa, 1243-1304
  30. Emperor Fushimi, 1265-1317
  31. Emperor Go-Fushimi, 1288-1336
  32. Emperor Kōgon, 1313-1364
  33. Emperor Sukō, 1334-1398
  34. Prince Fushimi Yoshihito, 1351-1416
  35. Prince Fushimi Sadafusa, 1372-1456
  36. Emperor Go-Hanazono, 1419-1471
  37. Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado, 1442-1500
  38. Emperor Go-Kashiwabara, 1462-1526
  39. Emperor Go-Nara, 1495-1557
  40. Emperor Ōgimachi, 1517-1593
  41. Prince Masahito, 1552-1586
  42. Emperor Go-Yōzei, 1571-1617
  43. :ja:近衛信尋|Konoe Nobuhiro, 1599-1649
  44. Konoe Hisatsugu, 1622-1653
  45. Konoe Motohiro, 1648-1722
  46. Konoe Iehiro, 1667-1736
  47. Konoe Iehisa, 1687-1737
  48. Konoe Uchisaki, 1728-1785
  49. Konoe Tsunehiro, 1761-1799
  50. Konoe Motosaki, 1783-1820
  51. Prince Konoe Tadahiro, 1808-1898
  52. Prince Konoe Atsumaro 1863-1904
  53. Viscount Konoe Hidemaro, 1898-1973
  54. Miyagawa Tadatoshi