Maruyama okyo biography of albert

Okyo MARUYAMA, (June 12, 1733 – August 31, 1795) was a mid Edo period painter. He was the founder of the Maruyama school, which continued in the Kyoto art circles up to the modern period.

His approachable style of painting attaches great importance to sketching.

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There are many examples that his surname is mistakenly written 丸山 instead of 円山.

He was born in 1733 in Ano Village, Kuwata District, Tanba Province (currently Kameoka City, Kyoto Prefecture) as the second son of a farmer.

Ano is known for the Anao-ji Temple, one of the Saigoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage temples. Although his boyhood is not known well, he went to Kyoto from his late teens and became a disciple of Yutei ISHIDA, a painter of the Tsurusawa school belonging to Tanyu KANO.

It is known that he was involved in making so-called megane-e (eyeglass pictures) in his twenties. Megane-e are pictures that use the western line perspective method to draw landscapes, etc., which appear three-dimensional