The music of composer Dai Fujikura draws on diverse sources of inspiration, including European avant-garde and traditional Japanese music. Fujikura has also collaborated with musicians from the fields of experimental jazz and pop. Fujikura works as early as 2001's Echo Within for piano have been recorded; that work appeared on pianist Aleksander Szram's album Into the 21st Century. Fujikura began to gain attention with Vast Oceans, for trombone, orchestra, and electronics (2005) when it was performed after being commissioned by the Donaueschingen Music Days in Germany. In 2014, Fujikura became composer-in-residence of the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra. Fujikura has written three operas. As of 2022, Fujikura was at work on an opera about the artist Hokusai. By that time, more than 30 of his compositions had been recorded.