In 1879,Rentaro Taki was born in number 18-ku Tokyo Prefecture Shiba Ward Minamisaku-machi,2-chome,as the eldest son of Yoshihiro Taki.

 Edo period,The Taki family was pedigree of senior samurai who served as the chief retainer positions in Hita clam.

 Taki is a school transfer of five times for his father Yoshihiro is turned to the Ministry of Home Affairs from the Ministry of Finance, after served as home affairs bureaucracy under Hirobumi Ito and colleagues Okubo Toshimichi, I moved Toyama Prefecture and Kanagawa Prefecture, Oita Prefecture, such as local government official it is said to have repeated.

 After graduating from undergraduate in 1898,Taki entered the Tokyo School of Musicat (Currently:Tokyo University of the Arts) the age of 15 in 1894,he progressed to the graduate course and developed the talent by composition and a piano performance.

 In addition, it becomes a Christian is baptized in the Episcopal Church Grace Ebisukobaru Church (Philanthropy Association) that was in the city of Tokyo koji town (Currently:Chiyoda-ku ) on October 7, 1900, and received the Confirmation from John Makimu.

 April 1901, as European foreign students for the second person, he learned counterpoint and piano and studied in Leipzig Conservatory in the eastern German musician of Japanese.

 However,was forced toreturn homein a year ill tuberculosis after two months away.

He was under treatment in Oita Prefecture is the home of the father then, but he died at the young of 23-year-old at his home in Oita at 5:00 pm June 29, 1903.

Is a masterpiece of Taki,"Kojonotsuki",was published in the Ministry of Education compiled in the "junior high school song."

 Is one of the popular song was composed in August 1900 "flower" has become the first song suite consisting of four songs of "The Four Seasons".

 Incidentally,a composer at the time of the22-year-old Taki,is the choral music of the Japanese for the first time was composed by the "Four Seasons".

 "Yukiya Concon," "Osyougatu" and "Hato Poppo", known as the oldest nursery rhyme work was born in Japan, has been housed in a kindergarten song, which was compiled in 1900, in Shuvutonyu monastery in Belgium "Kojonotsuki" melody has been used as a chant in the liturgy to be performed.

 Taki is at one of the activity like this,had struggled with life tuberculosis,there is also what appears to be the hotness suffering and is appearing in the work.

 No lyrics to work Taki had made especially the last of "Urami",mournful melody is characterized.

 One theory, it is said that when it did not tune in a grudge against the people that have to bother myself until now.

 In addition,we say we work left to later years of Taki is,to have been incinerated after death the many reasons Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is attached.