(b Kameoka [now Kyoto Prefecture] or Kyoto, 1733; d Kyoto, 1795). Japanese painter. Although born into a farming family, he showed an early talent for drawing. His parents, after trying unsuccessfully to have him become a monk, apprenticed him first to a clothing shop in Kyoto and then to a toymaker there, for whom he painted dolls. Okyo frequented a cosmetics shop for which he designed accessories, and it was at the instigation of the shop’s customers that he undertook formal training as a painter.

• Maruyama Okyo
  • Edo period
  • Japan, §VI, 4(i)(c): Late painting: Edo period
  • Japan, §VI, 4(viii)(a): Painting: Late: Naturalistic painting: Maruyama–Shijo school: Introduction
  • attributions
    • Toshusai Sharaku, §1: Identity and background
  • collaboration
    • Rokubei
  • groups and movements
    • Japan, §VI, 4(viii): Late naturalistic painting: Maruyama–Shijo school
    • Kano school, §3: 1600–1868
  • pupils
    • Kyoto, §II, 2: Art life, 13th–19th centuries
    • Matsumura Goshun
    • Nagasawa Rosetsu
  • works
    • Japan, §VI, 4(viii)(b): Late naturalistic painting of the Maruyama–Shijo school: Maruyama Okyo
    • Mori Sosen
    • Screen (ii), §1: East Asia
  • writings
    • Japan, §XVII, 2(iii): Painting treatises: Other schools