Artist: Maruyama Ōkyo
Date: 1785
Size: 104 x 37 cm
Technique: Gold
Eight young sweetfish (ayu) swim upstream past a mossy rock and pink spring azaleas in the right- hand scroll of this diptych. Spring and summer have come and gone in the left-hand scroll, indicated by the crimson leaves of a maple tree. Here, three more sweetfish, fully grown, head back downstream toward the coast to begin the cycle anew. Ōkyo moved to Kyoto from neighboring Harima while still in his teens and became one of the capital’s most popular painters. Having studied traditional Chinese and Japanese painting as well as the linear perspective of Western realism, Ōkyo is said to have trained as many as one thousand students in his Kyoto studio. In the lower left of the left-hand scroll, Ōkyo signed and dated his painting 1785— the pinnacle of his prolific career.
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