 Takagi moved to Fukuoka in 1974, divorced her first husband in 1978 and married her second husband, a lawyer, in 1980.Takagi started writing love stories and made her fiction debut in 1980 with "Sono hosoki michi" (That Narrow Road).It was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize, as were her subsequent stories "Tôsugiru tomo" (A Distant Friend, 1981), "Oikaze" (A Following Wind, 1982), and "".