Edo Painting

Harvard FAS

This seminar explores the history of painting during Japan’s Edo period (1615-1868). This semester’s iteration of the course focuses on the life and work of Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795), the Edo period’s most popular painter. Each week, through close examinations of Okyo’s paintings, students will become familiarized to the techniques, formats, materials, pictorial styles, and subject matter of Japanese painting. Working outward from these case studies, students will also explore larger cultural…