Maruyama Okyo
【Pine, bamboo and a wagtail】
Title
Pine, bamboo and a wagtail
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".