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Odano Naotake
Odano Naotake was a samurai painter of the Kubota domain in Akita and the leading artist of the Akita school, which combined Japanese subjects with Western perspective and shading. Taught by Hiraga Gennai from 1773, he went to Edo and drew the illustrations for Kaitai Shinsho (1774), the first Japanese translation of a European anatomy text. He died young in 1780.
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