Takabe was a pupil of Honinbo Shuei, the 17th and 19th head of the Honinbō house.
In the 1920s, he joined the Kiseisha, a splinter group of the Nihon Ki-in, Japan's main administrative body for Go.
In addition, he was one of the five Hiseikai, a group formed in 1922 and devoted to tournament play.
[1] The other members of the Hiseikai were Chiyotaro Onoda, Segoe Kensaku, Tamejiro Suzuki and Karigane Junichi.
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