How to say "fanfare" in Japanese

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  • 鳴り物入りなりものいりCommon
    nounThe figurative sense: a debut, launch, or appearance made with great ceremony and publicity, as though trumpets were sounding — a product launch, say. It is not the name of an actual musical piece.
    あの男おとこ鳴り物なりもの入いりで入社にゅうしゃしたけど、実力じつりょくのほど看板かんばんに偽いつわりなしだったね。↗
    He came on board this company with a lot of fanfare and he turns out to have the skill and talent to live up to it.
  • nounThe literal sense: an actual short trumpet flourish played at a ceremony or to open an event or welcome a guest. A less common loanword; it denotes the music itself, not figurative publicity.

Choose 「鳴り物入り」 for the figurative sense — a splashy, much-trumpeted debut or launch — and the loanword 「ファンファーレ」, which is less common, for the literal musical flourish of trumpets at a ceremony or event.

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