Odano Naotake

Shinobazu pond

From the anatomy book

Children playing

Odano Naotake ( Japanese 小田野直武 , stage name : Gyokusen (玉泉/玉川) Uyo (羽陽), born 18th January 1750 in Kakunodate . (角館), died 19th June 1780 ) was an early Japanese painter in western style.

life and work

Odano Naotake was the son of a samurai in the service of the Satake in Akita . When Hiraga Gennai , an expert in Western technologies, was invited to Akita in 1773 to improve the operation of the mines there, Odanao met him and learned the Western way of painting from him. Satake Yoshiatsu (佐 竹 義 敦), the current head, who himself was interested in Western painting and painted under the stage name "Shozan" (曙 山), sent Odano to Edo at the end of the same year so that he could continue to take lessons from Hiraga. After that, Odano stayed in Edo, developed into a sought-after painter, but kept in touch with his prince in Akita.

Odano's style is a mixture of western and realistic Chinese painting, as taught by Shen Quan in Nagasaki . He used silk or paper as a painting base and used traditional East Asian color pigments. The spread of his western-oriented style of painting later enabled Shiba Kōkan to be successful. The best-known picture of Odano is probably the one with the title "不忍 池 図" (Shinobazu-no-ike, Shinobazu pond) owned by Akita Prefecture . Odano also made the drawings for the medical textbook "解体 新書" (Kaitai shinsho), which was translated from Dutch. This book was published in 1774; it was the first translation of a western scholarly book in Japan.

Odano died at the age of 30. 　

Remarks

1. ↑ Today a district of Semboku .
2. ↑ The Dutch book is in turn a translation of the "Anatomical Tables" written by Kulmus from 1724.

literature

• Tazawa, Yutaka: Odano Naotake . In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .
• Laurance P. Roberts: Odano Naotake . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

Web links

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Odano is the family name, Naotake the first name.