Toshi Ichiyanagi

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1933-02-04 (89 years old)

Deathday

2022-10-07

Place of Birth

Kobe, Japan

Toshi Ichiyanagi

Biography

Toshi Ichiyanagi (一柳 慧 Ichiyanagi Toshi, born 4 February 1933) is a Japanese composer and pianist. Ichiyanagi was born in Kobe. He studied with Tomojirō Ikenouchi, Kishio Hirao [fr; ja], and John Cage. One of his most notable works is the 1960 composition Kaiki, which combined Japanese instruments, shō and koto, and western instruments, harmonica and saxophone. Another work, Distance (1961), required the performers to play from a distance of three meters from their instruments. Anima 7 (1964) stated that chosen action should be performed "as slowly as possible". Ichiyanagi was married to Yoko Ono from 1956 to 1963. Ichiyanagi is the recipi...

Acting

1979

Production

1962

Pitfall

as Original Music Composer

1970

1982

THE BONE

as Music

1986

THE BONE II

as Music

1986

Saya: Perspective in Love

as Original Music Composer

1981

The Ondekoza

as Music

1971

Metastasis

as Music

1968

Farewell to the Summer Light

as Original Music Composer

1972

Expansion

as Music

1975

Atman

as Music

1977

The Story of Big 1: Sadaharu Oh

as Original Music Composer

1973

Coup d'Etat

as Original Music Composer

1965

A Story Written with Water

as Original Music Composer

1971

Confessions Among Actresses

as Original Music Composer

1969

Tragedy on the G Line

as Original Music Composer

1968

Oxed-man

as Original Music Composer

1967

The River - Poem of Wrath

as Original Music Composer

1962

Sculptures by Sofu - Vita

as Original Music Composer

1963

Closed Vagina

as Original Music Composer

1965

Kachi Kachi Yama

as Original Music Composer

1967

The Room

as Original Music Composer

1984

The Wangan Highway

as Original Music Composer

2011

Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu

as Original Music Composer

1970

1963

The Solar Thread

as Original Music Composer

1980

Jun

as Original Music Composer

1969

Eros + Massacre

as Original Music Composer

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