Takashi first understudied the prominent artist Koshin Soeda in Japenese calligraphy in Tokyo later moving on to achieve a Bachelor of Fine Arts Double Major in Painting and Ceramics at the University of Regina, Canada and graduating with a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics at the Arizona state University in 2015. Having succesful produced a number of exhibtions, commercial projects and artist in residencies internationally he now lives and works in his home City Tokyo

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