Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795), Mountainous landscape in snow, Edo period, dated Minoto mi chuto hi (a day in mid-winter, 1773) | 円山応挙　雪景山水図屏風　江戸時代中期　安永二年（1773）

Toyomune Minamoto ed., Maruyama Okyo gashu [Works by Maruyama Okyo], Kyoto, 1999, plt. 157.

A serene snow-covered landscape. Crows are seen perched among the winter branches; before the vast mountain range, two small figures, one riding on the back of a donkey, traverse through the dense snow.

Okyo was based in Kyoto. His naturalistic approach to painting gave way to what came to known as the Maruyama-Shijo school, after both himself and the locale ‘Shijo’ of which he and his followers were based. Their works are characterised by their incorporation of Western realism and departure from the stylised conventions of the Kano, Tosa and Rimpa. In this work, the surge of the icy river is rendered with heightened realism, while an air of classicism is still retained through the application of trailing mist in gold pigment. 

出版

源豊宗等，《円山應挙画集》，京都， 1999， 編號157

此乃一幅靜謐的覆雪山景，鴉群棲息於冬日光禿的枝椏間，在壯闊的群山掩映下，兩名旅人正騎驢踏雪而行。

應舉立足京都畫壇，其自然主義風格開創了後世所稱的「圓山-四條派」，該流派得名於應舉及其追隨者所在的『四條』地區。其作品特點在於融合西方寫實技法，並突破狩野派、土佐派與琳派的傳統規範。此作中，冰河的湍流以高度寫實手法呈現，同時透過金雲霞彩的運用，保留了古典韻味。