Nagasawa Rosetsu was a Japanese painter during the Edo period. A disciple of the Maruyama School, he was known for his versatile artistic style. He was born to the family of a low-ranking samurai. He studied with Maruyama Ōkyo in Kyoto.
Eagle on a Branch, painted on a screen. Edo Period, 18th century. Indianapolis Museum of Art.
A Woman of Ōhara Carrying Firewood
White Elephant and Black Bull (left panel)
White Elephant and Black Bull (right panel)
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 style of Western naturalism mixed with Eastern decorative design emerged, and Ōkyo founded the Maruyama school of painting. Although many of his fellow artists criticized his work as too slavishly devoted to natural representation, it proved a success with laypeople.
Maruyama Ōkyo by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. Maruyama Okyo was well known for his true-to-life paintings. The story, illustrated by this print, tells of the time Okyo painted a ghost so "realistically" that it came to life and frightened him.
Crows, 1766; pair of sixfold screens; ink and gold on paper.
Cracked Ice shows influence from Western art in its use of perspective.
Pine Trees, c. 1780; pair of sixfold screens.
