Named in honor of Bunshiro Takase (1924– ), who worked at the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory and the Department of Astronomy of Tokyo University, where he taught a course on Galactic structure. With the start of the project of building the 105-cm Schmidt telescope at Kiso {see planet  (2271)} he returned to the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory and during 1974–84 served as its first director. Early in the 1950s Takase worked with H. Hirose {see planet  (1612)} on the computation of ephemerides of minor planets for the Minor Planet Center. (M 27329) _ _.