Born into a townsman's family in Shitaya, Edo.
He was apprenticed to the Buddhist sculptor Takamura Tōun and later took the Takamura name.
As the anti-Buddhist movement dried up commissions and ivory carving became fashionable, he held fast to wood carving.
He began teaching sculpture at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, later becoming a professor.
He exhibited Old Monkey at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
He led the making of the statue of Saigō Takamori in Ueno Park, Tokyo.
He worked on the statue of Kusunoki Masashige outside the Imperial Palace.
He died in Tokyo. His son Takamura Kōtarō also became famous as a sculptor and poet.
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