Background
Takata Masao was born under the name of Teruyoshi Nakamura in Kagoshima Prefecture, 1895.
正夫 高田
Takata Masao was born under the name of Teruyoshi Nakamura in Kagoshima Prefecture, 1895.
He began his professional career as a dancer of the Imperial Theatre and later cooperated with Baku Ishii. Accompanied by his wife Seiko Hara, also a dancer, he sailed for France (1922) to study Western dancing. Upon his return he founded a dance research institute.