Japan's Edo period and the European Renaissance were seperated by hundreds of years. But in spite of that, there was a cat in Edo Japan who fit the definition of "renaissance man": the scholar, inventor, and artist known as Hiraga Gennai.
who would go on to be called 
the da Vinci of Japan appeared.
e inventor llegó a ser conocido
como el da Vinci japonés.
que seria chamado de
"o Da Vinci japonês" surgiu.