Image: Homma Museum of Art, Sakata
Homma Museum of Art in Sakata is currently presenting the special exhibition ‘Maruyama Ōkyo and the Kyoto Painting World’, drawn from the museum’s collection. The exhibition highlights works by Maruyama Ōkyo and other painters associated with the Kyoto art scene, and it remains on view through September 8.
According to the museum, the show follows the paths of artists whose work contributed to the birth of modern Japanese painting. Alongside Ōkyo, the presentation includes pieces by Ito Jakuchu, placing these figures within a broader account of Kyoto’s painterly milieu rather than isolating them as individual names.
The exhibition title points to both a key artist and a wider artistic network. By framing the display around the Kyoto painting world, the museum is focusing on the environment in which these artists worked and the connections among them, using works from its own holdings to tell that story.
Maruyama Ōkyo is one of the central names in the exhibition, and the inclusion of Ito Jakuchu adds another important voice from the same period. The museum’s wording emphasizes the painters’ footsteps in the Kyoto art scene, suggesting a historical survey of their presence and influence as preserved through the collection.
The exhibition is open now and will continue until September 8 at Homma Museum of Art in Sakata, Japan. Visitors are being encouraged by the museum to see the special exhibition during its run.
