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About 45 minutes west of Morioka via the Shinkansen (Bullet Train), Kakunodate is an old samurai town that actually still has some of its samurai district intact. As you will see from the following pictures, many of the characteristics that we saw in the samurai houses (tatami mats, color schemes, etc) were very similar to the ryokans that we stayed at.
Kakunodate
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Odano Naotake (1749-80) was a Kakunodate-born samurai and a remote relative of the Aoyagi clan. He rose to fame for his illustrations of the human body in "Kaitai Shinsho," the first translation of a Dutch book on anatomy published in Japan in 1774.
Odano's anatomical illustrations in "Kaitai Shinsho" utilized such western techniques as drawing in perspective and applying shading, techniques not used in Japanese drawings of those days.
With the publication of "Kaitai Shinsho", Odano won the respect of many art-loving feudal lords, who called upon him for lessons. He later invented "Akita Ranga", or the Akita Dutch-drawing method.
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