DETAILS
- Artist
- Maruyama Ōkyo
- Date
- 1769
- Location
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Culture
- Japan
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THE ARTIST
Maruyama Ōkyo
Maruyama Ōkyo blended Western naturalism with traditional Japanese decorative painting, founding the influential Maruyama school in 18th-century Kyoto.
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