Iku Takenaka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Iku Takenaka

Date of Birth: 01-Apr-1904

Place of Birth: Hyōgo-ku, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 07-Mar-1982

Profession: poet

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Iku Takenaka (???, Takenaka Iku 1904–1982) was a Japanese poet from Hyogo prefecture.
He graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University.
His best-known work is a cinepoem Rugby.He met Ryunosuke Akutagawa who wrote closet screenplays, just before Akutagawa's suicide, and then, in Akutagawa's home, he also met Tatsuo Hori, whose work 'Kaze Tachinu' inspired Hayao Miyazaki's last work.
He also met Man Ray in Paris, when Ray created cinepoems, to interview Ray for a magazine.His Dharma name was Shunkoin Shisen Ikudo Koji (?????????).