Iku Takenaka (竹中郁, ''Takenaka Iku'' 1904–1982) was a Japanese

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from Hyogo prefecture. He graduated from

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. 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

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, whose work ' Kaze Tachinu' inspired

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's last work. He also met

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, when Ray created cinepoems, to interview Ray for a magazine. His

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was Shunkōin Shisen Ikudō Koji (春光院詩仙郁道居士).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Takenaka, Iku Japanese male poets Modernist writers 1904 births 1982 deaths 20th-century Japanese poets Date of birth missing Date of death missing Writers from Hyōgo Prefecture 20th-century male writers 20th-century Buddhists Japanese Buddhists Kwansei Gakuin University alumni

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