 Upon his arrival, Takehiko became distressed to find that the house in which Andersen was born was now being used as little more than a storehouse, and that Andersen’s grave was unattended to and had gone to seed.Takehiko appealed to the local newspaper, and to anybody else he visited, asking them to return Andersen to his rightful prominence.Moved by his concern, the Danish people came to call Takehiko “the Japanese Hans Christian Andersen”.