Chester Beatty 25th Anniversary Online Lecture: Zodiac Animals in the Takamado Collection
Her Imperial Highness Princess Takamado
March 19, 12:00pm (GMT)
This talk will be delivered online, please register here to join via Zoom.
About the Speaker:
Her Imperial Highness Princess Hisako Takamado was born in Tokyo and studied at Sacred Heart Girls’ School. She was brought up in the U.S.A. and the U.K. and is a graduate of Girton College, Cambridge, where her subjects were Chinese Studies, Archaeology and Anthropology. She has a PhD from the Osaka University of Arts. She married His Imperial Highness Prince Norihito in 1984 and they were blessed with three daughters.
She is the Honorary Patron or President of many organisations including BirdLife International, the International Kyudo Federation and the Japan Football Association. She is a renowned collector and expert on “netsuke.” Her hobbies include painting, birdwatching, photography, theatre, tennis and kyudo.