Takanobu Takahashi is a Japanese Indologist, who is currently associate professor of Indian literature at International Buddhist University at Osaka, Japan.
10 Facts About Takanobu Takahashi
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Takanobu Takahashi is the second translator of the Kural into Japanese.
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Takanobu Takahashi was born in 1951 at Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
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Takanobu Takahashi graduated in Indology from the University of Tokyo in 1979.
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Takanobu Takahashi travelled to Tamil Nadu, India between 1979 and 1982 to learn Tamil at the Madurai Kamaraj University under the guidance of scholars such as Tamilannal.
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Takanobu Takahashi continued his post graduation in the Tokyo University.
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Takanobu Takahashi's thesis included Literary Conventions of Sangam Literature, with special focus on the Kurunthogai.
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Takanobu Takahashi is currently associate professor at International Buddhist University, Osaka, Japan.
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Takanobu Takahashi has published on Tamil literature, as well as Dravidian literatures.
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In 1999, Takahashi translated the Tirukkural into Japanese and published it from Tokyo under the title Thirukkural: Sacred Verses of Ancient Tamil.