Toshio Odate

Toshio Odate (, born 1930) is a Japanese-born American sculptor, woodworker, craftsman, author, and educator. He specializes in Japanese woodworking and is a noted shoji maker. He is the author of, Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and Use (Taunton Press, 1984).

Biography Toshio Odate was born in 1930 in Tokyo, Japan. He trained in Japan as a cabinetmaker early in his career for 7 years starting at age 16, this was due to the economic pressure in Japan post-World War II. In 1948, he moved to the United States for one year for college, followed by a year in Denmark for study of Scandinavian design. Memorial Art Gallery, Chazen Museum of Art, and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Odate is included in the Brooklyn Museum Interviews of Artists, 1965–1968, and the Stephen Radich Gallery Records, 1942–1979, at the Archives of American Art.

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