[1] Takeda has lived in Mexico for over fifty years and trained several generations of Mexican artists, many of them indigenous Zapotecs and Mixtecs.

[2] Takeda was born in 1935 in Seto, Japan and trained at the University of Fine Arts of Tokyo.

Later studying lithography with Francisco Vasquez at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Graficas.

[2] He previously worked as a painter and graphic artist for the Museo Nacional de las Culturas.

Since 1980 Takeda has been chair of the Department of Art at the Universidad Autónoma "Benito Juárez" de Oaxaca.