“…For more on Yamada, see Nomura K. (1956) and the Grove Encyclopedia of Music (online at http://www.grovemusic.com) under entry "Yamada, Kosaku [Koscak]." Many works offer general background on European music in Japan in the early twentieth century; a few are Nitobe (1931), Tanabe Hisao (1931), Komiya (1956, Dan (1961), Malm (1971), Coaldrake (1990), Eppstein (1994); for a sense of relevant U.S. discourse, see such sources as "Finds Japan's Music Built for the Future: Old Standards Abandoned, Prof. Carl, the Organist, Says. He Went with Taft Party.…”