The Maruyama Okyo UniverseFootless ghost, brush tiger, mobile waterfall and snow-laden pines: Okyo renews Kyoto's painting by making observation a source of wonder.
1733 - 1795Life of Maruyama Okyo
Around 1766Sustainable adoption of the Okyo name
Maruyama-ShijoSchool resulting from his teaching
°12,000Paintings, screens and drawings created - overall estimate
Hand paintedReal oil painting, no print.
Formats of your choiceA composition adapted to the dimensions ordered.
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Kyoto, 1733 -1795 · Nature observation and Maruyama-Shijo school
Footless ghost, brush tiger, mobile waterfall and snow-laden pines: Okyo renews Kyoto's painting by making observation a source of wonder.
Maruyama Okyo was born in 1733 into a rural family in the province of Tanba and died in Kyoto in 1795. Trained with Ishida Yûtei, painter of the Tsurusawa branch of the Kanô school, he also worked on megane-e, images intended for optical devices which introduce him to perspective effects. From the 1760s, he founded a language of shasei, study from nature, without renouncing decorative formats, Chinese painting of birds and flowers or fantastic subjects. This alliance became the basis of the Maruyama school then Maruyama-Shijô. Dragon and tiger, dated 1770, contrasted the atmospheric washes of the celestial dragon with the meticulous coat of the terrestrial tiger. Pines under the snow, made for the Mitsui family, uses the light support to weigh the snow on the branches. Green maple and waterfall shows how precise observation can remain monumental. Even The Ghost of Oyuki, a famous image of a spectral woman without feet, owes its strength to the delicate credibility of the face and fabrics. At Okyo, realism and wonder are never mutually exclusive. The "Maruyama Okyo" selection notably compares The Ghost of Oyuki and Dragon and Tiger. His reading favors atmosphere.
Okyo observes the world precisely enough to make the fantastic plausible: the tiger breathes, the snow weighs and even the ghost seems to have been seen.
Course & style
Journey, subjects and pictorial language
Learn Kanô and perspective
Ishida Yûtei's workshop and optical images bring together traditional brush and Western space. This milestone illuminates the "Maruyama Okyo" collection by favoring atmosphere.
Make shasei a method
Sketches from nature, large decorations and commissions impose a new path in Kyoto painting.
Form a sustainable school
Students, workshops and patrons spread a decorative realism that will mark modern Japanese painting.
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Direct observation
Animal, branch or face are studied with enough precision to maintain their singularity. This trait guides a reading of "Maruyama Okyo" centered on the atmosphere.
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Atmospheric enema
Ink variations give shape to clouds, water and distance without enclosing them.
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Active vacuum
Unpainted paper, silk or gold background becomes snow, air and light.
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Living decor
Screens, doors and rollers combine architectural scale and intimately observed details.
Explore by universe
Nature between presence and appearance
Snow, animal, water and ghost show how Okyo shifts faithful study to an almost supernatural experience.
Snow01
The white that weighs
The unpainted support becomes a visible material placed on the needles and branches.
For the void. Reading of "Maruyama Okyo" through the atmosphere.Animal02
Individualized living things
Tiger, puppy or crane maintains its own posture, texture and character.
For observationWater03
The movement continues
Waterfall and wash organize circulation that exceeds the limits of the support.
For rhythmGhost04
The Unreal Credible
The finesse of the portrait makes the apparition more disturbing than a spectacular monster.
For the mysteryAround 1750 · Yûrei-zu05
Oyuki's Ghost
Oyuki appears without feet, but the sloping face and translucent fabrics give him a disturbing presence.
Maruyama Okyo's landmark work1770 · Ink and color on silk06
Dragon and tiger
The cloud dragon and the terrestrial tiger contrast atmospheric wash and carefully brushed coat.
Maruyama Okyo's landmark work
Works to discover
Six visions of Maruyama Okyo
The selection brings together ghosts, animals and landscapes to show the full extent of its decorative realism; four works are presented here in preview.
Each painting is made in oil on canvas by a specialized artist, then checked with you before shipping.
From the work to your interior
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Each reproduction is unique. Slight variations of touch and material testify to the painter's manual work.
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Adapt the format to the subject: large horizontal for pine trees, vertical pair for dragon and tiger, narrow roller for ghost. Natural wood, lacquered black or matte gold will respect the elegance of Kyoto.
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How to restore the atmosphere in a reproduction of Maruyama Okyo?
The painter uses the composition, values, colors and materials visible in the chosen work from the Maruyama Okyo collection, with particular attention paid to the atmosphere.
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Are the reproductions hand painted?
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