Takanobu Takahashi
Takanobu Takahashi is a Japanese Indologist, who is currently associate professor of Indian literature at International Buddhist University at Osaka, Japan. He is the second translator of the Kural into Japanese.Biography
Takanobu Takahashi was born in 1951 at Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. In 1989, he obtained his PhD in Indian literature from the University of Utrecht. He is currently associate professor at International Buddhist University, Osaka, Japan. He has published on Tamil literature, as well as Dravidian literatures.
In 1999, Takahashi translated the Tirukkural into Japanese and published it from Tokyo under the title Thirukkural: Sacred Verses of Ancient Tamil.Publications
- Takanobu Takahashi.. Poetry and Poetics: Literary Conventions of Tamil Love Poetry. Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht. 340 pages.
- Takanobu Takahashi.. Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics. Leiden, New York, Cologne: E. J. Brill. ISSN 0925-2916.
- Takanobu Takahashi.. Thirukkural: Sacred Verses of Ancient Tamil. Tokyo: Heibonsha.
