TAKAMURA Kôtarô
高村光太郎 (1883 – 1956)
Leading Japanese sculptor and painter, today also renowned for his poetry | 1883 born in Tôkyô | 1906-1910 travels to the USA, Paris and London, becomes an enthusiastic follower of the sculpture of Auguste RODIN (in addition to his work as a poet and sculptor he also emerged as a translator of Rodin’s writings) | 1910 returns to Japan | 1914 marries the painter and poet TAKAMURA Chieko; starts to publish the first of six collections of poems around his wife | 1928 Chieko shows first signs of shizophrenia | 1945 many of his sculptures and drawings were destroyed by fire, along with his studio, in an air raid | 1956 died in Tôkyô
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