Odano Naotake ( 1759 – 1780 ) was a painter from the Akita Ranga art school. This art school was a byproduct of the ‘rangaku’ . the ‘Dutch learning’ . Rangaku was an of import motion in eighteenth-century Japan. It is the survey of Holland and the Dutch during the clip that the Dutch trade station on Desjima the lone connexion was with the outside universe and the West. Through this contact. Japan stayed informed about Western developments. such as wellness attention and other engineerings.

This made Japan capable of fast modernisation after the gap of the state in 1854. The Rangaku painters painted traditional Nipponese subjects with the usage of Western techniques. The difference from the traditional pictures was the usage of shadows. position and contemplations. The painters besides started utilizing the colour blue for the sky and sea. Naotake was besides influenced by this new rational motion through Hiraga Gennai. a natural scientist and pupil of the Rangaky.

He inspired Naotake to analyze these new Western painting methods every bit good. He moved to Edo ( Tokyo ) to go on his surveies at that place. Through contacts with other painters. Naotake mastered the picture of ‘bird and flower’ . which is a traditional Jananese manner painting with the usage of Western position and deepness. These methods brought these pictures to a higher degree. more than merely ornaments. Naotake besides illustrated Japan’s first anatomy book. the Kaitai shinsho.

This book was a Nipponese interlingual rendition of the Dutch book “Ontleedkundige Tafelen” . which was imported from Holland. Together with Gennai and Lord Satake Shozan ( 1748-85 ) . Naotake started the Akita Ranga school of Art. When Gennai was arrested for killing a pupil and died shortly afterwards. Naotake was direct away from his station in Edo. These developments made the school autumn apart. ? Works Cited Johnson. H. Western Influence of Nipponese Art: The Akita Ranga Art School. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing. 2005.