Cleveland Museum of Art

Heron on a Willow Branch

Maruyama Ōkyo

Date

late 1700s

Medium

Two-panel folding screen; ink, color, lacquer, and gold on silk

Culture

Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

Department

Japanese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Okyo was the most influential painter and teacher of his time in Kyoto. His mastery of brush and ink found expression in a variety of Chinese and Japanese subjects, painting styles, and formats. This depiction of a heron on a willow branch is done in a classical Japanese painting ( yamato-e ) style, utilizing flat areas of colorful pigments set against an expansive background with little or no spatial depth.

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