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).

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 return to the United States, to live in New York City.^[5] In 1973, he moved to Woodbury, Connecticut.^[5]

He taught sculpture classes at Cooper Union briefly, followed by teaching at State University of New York at Purchase, Brooklyn Museum Art School, and Pratt Institute.^[5] At Brookfield Craft Center, Odate taught shoji-making classes.^[3]

His work is included in the public collection at UCR Arts,^[7] Memorial Art Gallery,^[8] Chazen Museum of Art,^[9] and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.^[10] Odate is included in the Brooklyn Museum Interviews of Artists, 1965–1968,^[11] and the Stephen Radich Gallery Records, 1942–1979,^[12] at the Archives of American Art.

• Odate, Toshio (1984). Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and Use. Woodworker's Library. Newtown, Connecticut: Taunton Press. ISBN 9780918804198.
• Ōdate, Toshio (2000). Making Shoji. Fresno, California: Linden Publishing. ISBN 9780941936477.