Maruyama Ōkyo
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Maruyama Ōkyo, born Maruyama Masataka, was a Japanese artist active in the late 18th century. He moved to Kyoto, during which he studied artworks from Chinese, Japanese and Western sources. A personal
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Pine Trees, c. 1780; pair of sixfold screens.
Peacock and Peahen; hanging scroll; color on silk
Dragon
Matsumura Goshun
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Matsumura Goshun, sometimes also referred to as Matsumura Gekkei, was a Japanese painter of the Edo period and founder of the Shijō school of painting. He was a disciple of the painter and poet Yosa B
Maruyama Ōkyo
…work is today preserved at Daijō-ji, a temple in Kasumi (Hyōgo Prefecture). Noteworthy pupils include Ōkyo's son, Maruyama Ōzui, Nagasawa Rosetsu, and Matsumura Goshun. Goshun joined Ōkyo's school in 1787. That year, the Maruyama school took a commission to paint screens for Daijō-ji. Later that year, Kyoto suffered…
Matsumura Goshun; portrait by Tani Bunchō
Hibiscus and blue heron on a tree-stump (1782)
Illustration from Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Cleveland Museum of Art)