Oda Tomiya 小田富弥, was born in Okayama prefecture. He studied nihonga at the Kitano Tsunetomi School. He started work as an illustrator profiting from the popularity of novels during the late Taisho period. His prints of beautiful women were published by the Osaka publishing house Mokuhan-sha and the Hakuyo-sha in the 1930s. His full-size sheets are very rare and seldom seen.
