Background
Takebushi Sakuta was born in Nagano Prefecture in 1906.
作田 竹部
Takebushi Sakuta was born in Nagano Prefecture in 1906.
Graduated from Waseda University.
Sakuta Takebushi took part in the Winter Olympic Games at St. Moritz (1928). He was a director of the Ski Association of Japan and an adviser of the sports department of the Mainichi Shimbun (newspaper).
Also a well-known mountaineer he has written several books on the subject.