MARUYAMA OKYO: CARP AMONG REEDS

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MARUYAMA OKYO: CARP AMONG REEDS By Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795), signed Okyo with seal Okyo Japan, dated 1792 MUSEC Museo delle Culture, Lugano, Kakemono: Five centuries of Japanese painting. The Perino Collection, 17 July 2020-11 April 2021. Ink and watercolors on silk. Mounted as a hanging scroll on a silk brocade frame with bone jikusaki (roller ends). A carp (koi) swimming with its two young among water weeds. Inscriptions: To the right edge, signed Okyo with seal Okyo and further dated by inscription Kansei mizunoe ne chuka [Mid-summer of the year of the Rat in the Kansei Period (corresponding to the year 1792)]. Image SIZE 93 x 34.5 cm, SIZE incl. mounting 157 x 47.5 cm With an inscribed wood tomobako (storage box). Okyo painted several images of carp, the best known perhaps being a pair of hanging scrolls in the Daijoji Temple, Hyogo, painted in 1789, showing a carp ascending a waterfall and one swimming in calmer waters, see the Exhibition Catalogue of the Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Tokubetsuten Maruyama Okyo: shaseiga sozo eno chosen, p.59, pl.27. Several of Okyo's drawings of carp remained for his students to use when composing their own paintings and like his other illustrations of fish, the artist no doubt based these paintings on studies from life. The carp in East Asian folklore is associated with valour and perseverance and is a theme frequently depicted in Edo period art. Koi no takinobori (ie. the image of a carp climbing a waterfall) recalls the Chinese legend of a carp leaping up the rapids of Lung Men (Dragon Gate) and turning into a Dragon. This became in time a symbol for perseverance and success. Even today this auspicious motif is linked to the Boys' Day Festival (5th day of the fifth month) when carp streamers are ubiquitously displayed. Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795), from present-day Kameoka, Kyoto, was a student at the Kano school of painting. He gained much renown after his first commission, the Seven Misfortunes and Seven Fortunes. As his public image grew, Okyo founded his own school in Kyoto, the Maruyama school of painting, dedicated to his style of blending Western naturalism with Eastern decorative designs. He taught his students to rely on nature to render images in a realistic picture of light, shadow, and forms. The school grew popular, and branches soon appeared in other locations, including Osaka. Much of the school's work is today preserved at Daijo-ji, a temple in Kasumi. Noteworthy pupils include Okyo's son, Maruyama Ozui, Nagasawa Rosetsu, and Matsumura Goshun. Auction comparison: Compare a related hanging scroll painting of a carp, Maruyama School, dated Tenmei 5 (1785), at Bonhams, Fine Japanese Art, 11 May 2010, London, lot 149 (sold for GBP 43,000 or approx. EUR 78,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing).

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