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I9O • Maruyama Okyo's penchant for conventions. Okyo's surpassing skill
Maruyama Ôkyo (1733-1795) panoramas and cityscapes may have in synthesizing elements of western,
Both Banks o/the Yodo Riuer resulted from his early employment Kano, and Rinpa painting — he was
1765 as a colorist in the establishment of an admirer of the versatile Watanabe
Handscroll; ink and color on silk the Kyoto toy-shop proprietor Shikó (cats. 161,162) — earned him
high acclaim and
a host of followers
7
40.2 x 1690.5 (i5 /s x 66572) Nakajima Kanbei. The young Ôkyo's in the late nineteenth century.
The Arc-en-Ciel Foundation, Tokyo duties included creating "perspective
pictures" for Kanbei's "Dutch glasses," His combination of life drawing and
wildly popular peep-show parapher- established sketch-models formed
nalia imported from Europe through the basis of the enduring Nihonga
the Chinese city of Suzhou and some- movement that still flourishes today.
times accompanied by depictions of
that city drawn with western spatial