birth_place nationality birth_date article_title name occupation
tokyo japanese 1953 akiya takahashi
 akiya takahashi art historian
akiya takahashi

for his master 's degree at the graduate school of fine arts , tokyo university of the arts , takahashi majored in 19th century french art history , with a particular focus on eugène delacroix and Édouard manet .
takahashi held a position as a curator at the national museum of western art , japan from 1980 to 2006 .
he served as a visiting fellow at the museum opening office of the musée d'orsay , paris from 1984 to 1986 , dispatched as part of the overseas researcher program of the ministry of education , japan .
after acting as senior curator and chief curator at the national museum of western art , japan , takahashi was appointed director of the mitsubishi ichigokan museum , tokyo in 2006 .
he added the maurice joyant collection , which houses over 250 lithographs and posters by henri de toulouse-lautrec .
the museum 's opening exhibition was `` manet and modern paris '' .
takahashi received the chevalier dans l'ordre des arts et des lettres in october 2010 .
takahashi 's father , hikoaki , is a scholar of french literature and former professor of the education faculty at waseda university .
takahashi lived in paris when he was an elementary student from 1965 through 1966 when he accompanied his father on sabbatical .
takahashi 's wife aki ooka is an artist and poet .
makoto ooka -lrb- poet and critic -rrb- and saki fukase -lrb- playwright -rrb- are takahashi 's parents-in-law , and akira ooka -lrb- novelist -rrb- is his brother-in-law .
