DETAILS
- Artist
- Maruyama Ōkyo
- Date
- 1733
- Medium
- Color woodblock print
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Collection
- Arts of Asia
- Culture
- Japan
- Credit line
- Bruce Goff Archive, gift of Shin'enkan, Inc.
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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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