Takeshiro Kanokogi studied with painters Matsubata Sangoro and later Koyama Shōtarō in Tokyo.

He traveled back and forth to Paris France several times, at first when he was 26 years old.

He spent around seven years in the city, during which time he studied with Jean-Paul Laurens and Émile-René Ménard at the Académie Julian.

[1] He is known for portrait, figure, land and seascape painting [2] in the Western style.

[3] La vie et l’œuvre de Takeshiro Kanokogui: peintre japonais,[6] by Matsutarô Tokumi; translation by Masakiyo Miyamoto and Louis Marchand, Institut Franco-Japonais de Kyôto.