Iku Takenaka (竹中郁, Takenaka Iku 1904–1982) was a Japanese poet from Hyogo prefecture.
He graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University.
[1] His best-known work is a cinepoem Rugby.
[2] He met Ryunosuke Akutagawa who wrote closet screenplays, just before Akutagawa's suicide, and then, in Akutagawa's home, he also met Tatsuo Hori, whose work 'Kaze Tachinu' inspired Hayao Miyazaki's last work.
[3] His Dharma name was Shunkōin Shisen Ikudō Koji (春光院詩仙郁道居士).