Toshio odate biography of rory

          Toshio Odate is a renown Japanese woodworker who has written extensively about his craft.

        1. He was born in Dublin and left school at 14 to work in a sheet metal factory for two years.
        2. For my booth, I had built 4 Japanese toolboxes from Toshio Odate's book Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and Use. I.
        3. Odate, Toshio (American, b.
        4. Ian-born Isao Odate.

          5. For my booth, I had built 4 Japanese toolboxes from Toshio Odate's book Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and Use. I..

          Toshio Odate

          Toshio Odate

          Born1930 (age 94–95)

          Tokyo, Japan

          Other namesToshio Ōdate
          Years activesculptor, woodworker, educator

          Toshio Odate (born 1930) is a Japanese-born American sculptor, woodworker, craftsman, author, and educator.[1] He specializes in Japanese woodworking and is a noted shoji maker.[2][3] 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.[4] 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.[5][6] In 1948, he moved to the United States for one year for college, followed by a year in Denmark for study of Scandinavian design.[5] He was planning to return to Japan to teach, however he changed his mind and Odate then decided to