Education Takashi Hiraide graduated from
Hitotsubashi University in the 1970s and shortly after published his first collection of Poems, "The Inn" (1976) while working as an editor at
Kawadeshobishinsha, a publishing house in Tokyo. In 1985, Hiraide spent three months at the University of Iowa's
International Writing Program, as poet in residence. During that time, he began writing postcards, addressed to the artist,
Donald Evans. From 1998 to 1999 Hiraide was a visiting scholar at the
Berlin Free University, his time there became the basis of a book later published in 2002. • "Airpost Poetry - Book Design for One by One" featured at the 2016
International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront Centre, sponsored by
Japan Foundation in
Toronto, Canada. • In August 2017, Hiraide was a resident at the Guest Studio of Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, an art studio in
Vestfossen, Norway. • An exhibition at the
Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art from October 2018 to January 2019, entitled: "Language and Art - Takashi Hiraide & the Artists". • Hiraide was also a speaker during the 8th "Land and Power" Symposium "BEING ALIVE: What does it mean to live? From the perspective of artistic anthropology" at the Institute for Anthropology Art and Design, Tama Art University, held 19 October 2020. == Critical reception ==