hnnnnggggggh disc 8
Definitely: Isao Eto, Sadanori Nakamure, Yoshinori Nomi, Osamu Nakajima, Kenji Yoshida (
entry), Hitoshi Yokoyama, Junichi Kanezaki, Nobuo Kato, Akira Imai, Makoto Yamamoto, Kaoru Chiba, Yumi Shigematsu (the names in SUITE GRADIUS are printed in Japanese and English, so those readings are mostly fine), Sekka Ryu, Shigeo Kubota, Hiroki Mitani (Suite DQII credits are also dual Japanese & English), Hiromu Murayama, Masato Iwai (this is a cute way to write Masato~), Kazunori Kawasaki (Suite DQI credits are dual-language), Akira Tabuchi, Yo Kigoshi (
also You), Hiroyuki Yamaguchi (DQII), Toshiyuki Kimata, Noriaki Kuroyanagi, Takashi Nagamine, Hirofumi Tamura, Kenichiro Tokunaga (DQI & II), Naofumi Nishida (DQI), Naoto Otomo
Likely: Minoru Akiyama, Akira Fukushima, Katsuro Mitsumoto, Hiroshi Ikeda, Satoshi Ido, Yinlin Pan (藩 宣林), Haruo Fujii (藤井晴雄), Yoshiyuki Itoda (井戸田善人)
Maybe: Kazuo Izumi, Katsuhiko Tezuka (手束勝彦), Happo Watanabe (渡辺八峯), Tomoo Uchida (内田智雄), Masahiko Kouno (河野昌彦), Kaname Miyashita (宮下 要)
Stumped: 栗田正行, 長谷川正隆, 輦止隆麿, 佐々木麻里
"Violinists": I think what they really meant was "strings" like on disc 9, because a bunch of these people are not violinists.
栗田正行: No music-related hits at all for this name, so I'm thinking it's in error. No suggestions for alternatives.
手束勝彦: This NHK Symphony Orchestra members list of uncertain reliability says Katsuhiko Tezuka:
http://tc5810.fc2web.com/nhksomember.htm.
Akira Fukushima: How is it that this guy's name appears in three different ways in this set? This is getting ridiculous.
渡辺八峯: Happo Watanabe?
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内田智雄: Someone with this name has apparently written several violin books, so there are some book hits with the name Tomoo Uchida:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/barokk...oclc/675964960.
河野昌彦: Masahiko Kouno?
http://www.jlogos.com/webtoktai/index.html?jid=10171361 There is a trumpet player whose name is read that way.
佐々木麻里: There's a
pianist Mari Sasaki with this name, but...
藩 宣林: Positive this is Yinlin Pan:
http://vgmdb.net/artist/8510.
藤井晴雄: Haruo Fujii according to
DrillSpin and
MPN. One or two random web hits to that name.
宮下 要: Kaname Miyashita?
http://www10.plala.or.jp/rh-sasurai/...y/Tour2001.htm
井戸田善人: There's an contrabass player Yoshiyuki Itoda (井戸田善
之) who is (was?) part of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, so I think this is a bad typo for him.
http://www.nhkso.or.jp/library/interview/330/