It was discovered on 17 April 1988, by Japanese astronomers Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at the Kushiro Observatory on Hokkaido, Japan.
[2] According to the surveys carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, Takuboku measures 28.115 and 35.59 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.108 and 0.0609, respectively.
Measurement of the asteroid's occultation dimensions 35.0 ×35.0 for its major and minor best-fit ellipse (the fit's quality code is 1).
[4][a] This minor planet was named after Japanese poet Takuboku Ishikawa (1886–1912) who lived in Japan's late Meiji-era.
He is best known for Ichiaku no Suna (A Handful of Sand) a collection of 551 tanka poems published in 1910.