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After his puppet play ''[[Shinrei yaguchi no watashi]]''<!--神霊矢口渡--> had its stage debut, at the orders of [[Tanuma Okitsugu]], Gennai returned to Nagasaki to study, specifically towards becoming a translator of Dutch books. He did not translate very many materials, but tried his hand at oil painting, and returned to Edo in 1772 having obtained wool and felt, new materials to experiment with. The following year, he was invited to [[Akita han]] to help with the redevelopment of their mining operations. While there, he trained daimyô [[Satake Shozan|Satake Shôzan]] and domainal official [[Odano Naotake]] in ''[[ranga]]'' (Western-style oil painting); the pair would lead others in painting in oils, developing their own school/style today called [[Akita ranga]].

After his puppet play ''[[Shinrei yaguchi no watashi]]''<!--神霊矢口渡--> had its stage debut, at the orders of [[Tanuma Okitsugu]], Gennai returned to Nagasaki to study, specifically towards becoming a translator of Dutch books. He did not translate very many materials, but tried his hand at oil painting, and returned to Edo in 1772 having obtained wool and felt, new materials to experiment with. The following year, he was invited to [[Akita han]] to help with the redevelopment of their mining operations. While there, he trained daimyô [[Satake Shozan|Satake Shôzan]] and domainal official [[Odano Naotake]] in ''[[ranga]]'' (Western-style oil painting); the pair would lead others in painting in oils, developing their own school/style today called [[Akita ranga]].

Gennai went into a depression beginning in [[1776]]. Though his reproduction of a Dutch electricity generator, among other projects, were successful, the Chichibu mines, and various other projects, were not, and Gennai experienced periods of great frustration and exasperation, flying into fits of rage at times. He toyed around with a number of popular publications, perhaps hoping they would be a productive distraction, but in 1777/11, he killed someone in a fit of rage. He died a month later in prison; Sugita Genpaku's epitaph on Gennai's grave reads "An extraordinary death for an extraordinary man."

Gennai went into a depression beginning in [[1776]]. Though his reproduction of a Dutch electricity generator, among other projects, were successful, the Chichibu mines, and various other projects, were not, and Gennai experienced periods of great frustration and exasperation, flying into fits of rage at times. He toyed around with a number of popular publications, perhaps hoping they would be a productive distraction, but in 1779/11, he killed someone in a fit of rage. He died a month later in prison; Sugita Genpaku's epitaph on Gennai's grave reads "An extraordinary death for an extraordinary man."

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