Aōdō Denzen

Aōdō Denzen (亜欧堂 田善, c. 1748 – June 25, 1822) was a Japanese painter and copperplate engraver.

Aōdō was born Zenkichi Nagata (永田 善吉, Nagata Zenkichi) in 1748 in Sukagawa, Mutsu Province (now Fukushima Prefecture), Japan.

[2] He was the second son of Sōshirō Nagata, a wealthy farm implement dealer.

[3] Upon the death of his father, he helped his older brother, Jokichi, who was a dyer, for a long time.

[2] Sadaki Ota's Aōdō Denzen Collection, owned by the Sukagawa museum, was declared an important culturally significant in 1986.