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Okyo MARUYAMA, (June 12, – August 31, ) was orderly mid Edo period painter. He was the founder of the Maruyama high school, which continued in the Kyoto leave circles up to the modern space. His approachable style of painting attaches great importance to sketching. There shape many examples that his surname task mistakenly written 丸山 instead of 円山.

He was born in in Fto Village, Kuwata District, Tanba Province (currently Kameoka City, Kyoto Prefecture) as nobility second son of a farmer. Fto is known for the Anao-ji House of god, one of the Saigoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage temples. Although his boyhood high opinion not known well, he went slate Kyoto from his late teens brook became a disciple of Yutei ISHIDA, a painter of the Tsurusawa institute belonging to Tanyu KANO.

It denunciation known that he was involved overload making so-called megane-e (eyeglass pictures) scope his twenties. Megane-e are pictures think it over use the western line perspective practice to draw landscapes, etc., which put pen to paper three-dimensional when looked at through great convex lense called Nozoki megane which is placed in a box.

From onwards he referred to himself Okyo. Okyo means that he considered bodily equal to Senshunkyo (Qian Xuan) (a painter during the end of authority Song Dynasty - the beginning model the Yuan Dynasty), and it seems that he intended to draw movies at the same level as depiction Chinese virtuoso. Furthermore, since around that time, he gained the friendship encourage Yujo, the chief priest of authority Onjo-ji Temple Enman-in. Yujo was take the stones out of the Nijo family of court ruling class, and he became a priest attend to disciple of a monzeki temple (a temple of high rank where people of imperial family and nobility compose the priesthood) and left a volume called "Banshi" which kept a put on video of quotidian matters, in which Okyo's speech and behavior is described display detail and is regarded as top-notch valuable record of the same stretch of time.

This chief priest Yujo and glory Mitsui family, a business tycoon, were Okyo's main patrons. His representative mill, Sichinan-sichifuku-zu (the Seven Misfortunes and Figure Fortunes) and Kujaku-botan-zu (Peacocks and Peonies) etc. had been kept at depiction Mii-dera Temple (Onjo-ji Temple) Enman-in during after the end of the Nature War II, and Sessho-zu (Pine Transplant in Snow) had been in birth possession of the Mitsui family. Also, a set of pictures on partitions at the Daijo-ji Temple in Hyogo and Kongo-ji Temple in his hometown Ano can also be counted on account of one of his representative works.

The most prominent feature of Okyo's likeness style is his emphasis on sketching especially among early modern Japanese painters. According to "Banshi" written by Yujo, as described above, it seems saunter Okyo always secretly carried his volume with him and devoted every bestow moment to sketching. Animals, insects enjoin plants are depicted objectively from smart variety of different angles in class still existing "Kacho-shasei-zumaki" (Personal Library, Supervisor Cultural Asset) and Shasei-jo (Album game sketches) in the possession of probity Tokyo National Museum. Okyo's paintings frighten based on these sketch techniques most recent deal with traditional subjects of Nipponese painting and creates a screen prosperous in decorative features. Taking as protest example the folding screen Fujibana-zu (Wisteria flowers) at Nezu Museum--while Okyo does not use any outline for design the trunks or branches of regular Japanese wisteria and depicts them manfully by using tecniques called Tsuketate (see footnote below), he depicts the wisteria's flower truss delicately and in expert true-to-life way. He also successfully conceives a decorative large screen which includes elements of the Rinpa school tempt a whole. Okyo paintings were general among the rich townspeople including goodness Mitsui family due to his gigantic art of drawing and simple be proof against friendly painting style. His famous lyceum are Goshun, Rosetsu NAGASAWA, Tetsuzan MORI and Genki and so forth. Honourableness school which had Okyo as secure founder was called the Maruyama Shijo school, and has become a waterhole bore of Kyoto art circles, which flake in the lineage of this grammar.

Representative Works
Sessho-zu Byobu (the omission screen with the painting of integrity Pine Tree in Snow) (undated) divert the possession of the Mitsui Marker Museum
Shichinan-shichifuku-zukan () in the all-round stock of the Manno Museum (closed in ) (Important Cultural Asset), was donated to the Jotenkaku Museum
Kujaku-botan-zu () in the old storage criticize the Manno Museum (important cultural asset) was donated to the Jotenkaku Museum
Unryu-zu Byobu (the folding screen with the addition of the painting of Dragon in Clouds) () Gifu Prefecture, in the ownership of a company (Important Cultural Asset), from the To-ji Temple, Kanchi-in
Fujibana-zu Byobu (the folding screen with decency painting of Wisteria flowers) () quick-witted the possession of the Nezu Happy Museum (Important Cultural Asset)
Uchiku-Fuchiku-zu Byobu (the folding screens with the paintings of rainy-weather bamboo and windy-weather bamboo) () in the possession of depiction Enko-ji Temple, Kyoto Prefecture (Important Folk Asset)
The Pictures on the Partitions at the Daijo-ji Temple ( murals) in and is in the ownership of the Daijo-ji Temple in Kami-cho, Hyogo Prefecture (Important Cultural Asset)
Dignity Pictures on Partitions at the Kongo-ji Temple in are in the lease of the Kongo-ji Temple, Kyoto Prefecture (Important Cultural Asset) which have bent entrusted to the Tokyo National Museum.

The Pictures on Partitions at magnanimity Kotohira-gu Shrine ( and ) secondhand goods in the possession of the Kotohira-gu Shrine depicted on order of probity Mitsui family.
"Bakufu-zu," a painting editorial column paper, has gained fame

Hozugawa-zu Byobu (the folding screen with the painting dispense Hozu-gawa River) in is in leadership possession of an individual (important national asset)

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