Neagari Tomiji / Birds of spring
2025年3月22日

Maruyama Okyo
【Pine, bamboo and a wagtail】

This is a dignified scroll with a graceful wagtail as the main character. It was created in the first year of the Kansei era when Okyo was 57 years old.
Number
D-129
Title
Pine, bamboo and a wagtail
Artist
Maruyama Okyo
Detail
Materials : ink and colour on silk
wooden boxed
Size : W 35 × H 99.5 cm (Image) ・ W 49.5 × H 186 cm (Mount)
Painted in 1789 at the age of 57.
Condition: slightly float on the image
Appeared in "Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition, Bidding and Selling catalogue"(December, 1963)
Artist History
Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795) was a Japanese painter from the mid-Edo period. The founder of the Maruyama school. He learned painting methods of the Kano school from Ishida Yutei and distinguished himself as a painter. He is also known for placing the utmost importance on sketching. He taught many of his disciples, including the major painters called "the Ten Excellent Painters of the Okyo School".
Price
950,000yen

Maruyama Okyo
【Pine, bamboo and a wagtail】

This is a dignified scroll with a graceful wagtail as the main character. It was created in the first year of the Kansei era when Okyo was 57 years old.
Number
D-129
Title
Pine, bamboo and a wagtail
Artist
Maruyama Okyo
Detail
Materials : ink and colour on silk
wooden boxed
Size : W 35 × H 99.5 cm (Image) ・ W 49.5 × H 186 cm (Mount)
Painted in 1789 at the age of 57.
Condition: slightly float on the image
Appeared in "Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition, Bidding and Selling catalogue"(December, 1963)
Artist History
Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795) was a Japanese painter from the mid-Edo period. The founder of the Maruyama school. He learned painting methods of the Kano school from Ishida Yutei and distinguished himself as a painter. He is also known for placing the utmost importance on sketching. He taught many of his disciples, including the major painters called "the Ten Excellent Painters of the Okyo School".
Price
950,000yen

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