Takeshi Kurashina, an historian and writer, took a degree in jurisprudence at the Keio university of Tokyo. After that he studied in Naples with a scholarship from the Italian government and from the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici Benedetto Croce.

Among his main works in Italian are

Un traduttore giapponese dell’Estetica with an appendix of previously unpublished letters exchanged between Benedetto Croce and Yoshinobu Baba (1926-1927)

Annali istituto italiano per gli studi storici

XX, L’arte della traduzione Una dissertazione di Baba Mutsuo on the translation of Western works into Japanese (29 september – 3 october 1921)

Scrinia, Anno III-N.1.