Heron on a Willow Branch
1775–1799
- Medium
- Two-panel folding screen; ink, color, lacquer, and gold on silk
- Dimensions
- Image: 69.4 x 185 cm (27 5/16 x 72 13/16 in.)
- Genre
- painting
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
About
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.