Writers of the Shirakaba school, painters, and other people of culture who admired Shiga, such as Saneatsu MUSHANOKOJI, Hideo KOBAYASHI (critic), Kazuo OZAKI, Tamezou WAKAYAMA, Seiyo OGAWA, Taikichi IRIE, Katsuichiro KAMEI, Takiji KOBAYASHI, and Takeo KUWABARA, frequently visited his residence; it became a major cultural salon where people met and discussed art and literature, and eventually came to be known as the Takahata Salon.
志賀を慕って武者小路実篤や小林秀雄(批評家)、尾崎一雄、若山為三、小川晴暘、入江泰吉、亀井勝一郎、小林多喜二、桑原武夫ら白樺派の文人や画家・文化人がしばしば訪れ、文学論や芸術論などを語り合う一大文化サロンとなり、いつしか高畑サロンと呼ばれるようになった。