Takashi Oda - The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators

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Takashi Oda - Illustrator

Profile: Born in Mie Prefecture in 1969, Takashi Oda studied oil and mural painting at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and earned his MFA in 1995. In 1996 after participating in the reconstruction of dinosaur fossils, he began to produce reconstruction images of dinosaurs. Since then Oda has held many solo and group exhibitions. From 1998 his graphic works have been exhibited in museum, and he has been creating images of dinosaurs for illustrated reference books and picture books. Oda first obtains information through research and exchanges with various paleontologists, then based on scientific data, he creates his original dinosaur illustrations.

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Books:
Title: Apatosaurus
Author and Illustrator: Takashi Oda
Publisher: Poplar Shuppan
ISBN: 978-4-591-09812-7

Title: Tyrannosaurus
Illustrator: Takashi Oda
Publisher: Kin no Hoshisha
ISBN: 4323070659

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