Takanobu Takahashi

Takanobu Takahashi (高橋 孝信, Takahashi Takanobu, born 1951) 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.

Takanobu Takahashi
Born1951 (age 68–69)
Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture  Japan
Other names高橋 孝信
OccupationJapanese Indologist
Known forTranslating Tirukkural 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.[1]

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. (1989). Poetry and Poetics: Literary Conventions of Tamil Love Poetry. Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht. 340 pages.
  • Takanobu Takahashi. (1995). Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics. Leiden, New York, Cologne: E. J. Brill. ISSN 0925-2916. ISBN 90-04-10042-3
  • Takanobu Takahashi. (1999). Thirukkural: Sacred Verses of Ancient Tamil. Tokyo: Heibonsha.

See also

References
  1. "Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics". Google Books. n.d. Retrieved 2 January 2018.

Further reading
  • Takanobu Takahashi. (1995). Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics (Volume 9 of Brill's Indological library), E.J. Brill. 255 pages. ISSN 0925-2916. ISBN 9004100423, 9789004100428
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