Odano Naotake

Place: Kubota Domain

Born: 1749

Death: 1822

Biography:

Odano Naotake was a Japanese painter born in 1749 in Kubota Domain, Japan. He was the head of the Akita ranga school of painting, which was a short-lived school of painting within the larger Japanese genre of ranga, or Dutch-style painting. The Akita ranga school lasted roughly from 1773 to 1780 and was based in Kubota Domain, in what is now Akita Prefecture. Odano Naotake was a retainer of the domain's lord Satake Shozan. The Akita painters for the most part painted traditional Japanese themes and compositions using Western-style techniques and an approximation of oil paints. Odano Naotake died in 1822.