Okyo Maruyama Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Okyo Maruyama Art Value Price Guide

Sep. 02, 2026
MARUYAMA OKYO: CARP AMONG REEDS
Est: €1,500 - €3,000
MARUYAMA OKYO: CARP AMONG REEDS By Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795), signed Okyo with seal Okyo Japan, dated 1792 Published: Forrer, Matthi [ed.] (2020) Kakemono: Five centuries of Japanese painting. The Perino Collection, 2020, p. 103, no. 85. Exhibited: MAO Museo d'Arte Orientale, Turin, Kakemono: Five centuries of Japanese painting. The Perino Collection, 27 March-28 June 2020. MUSEC Museo delle Culture, Lugano, Kakemono: Five centuries of Japanese painting. The Perino Collection, 17 July 2020-11 April 2021. Ink and watercolors on silk. Mounted as a hanging scroll on a silk brocade frame with bone jikusaki (roller ends). A carp (koi) swimming with its two young among water weeds. Inscriptions: To the right edge, signed Okyo with seal Okyo and further dated by inscription Kansei mizunoe ne chuka [Mid-summer of the year of the Rat in the Kansei Period (corresponding to the year 1792)]. Image SIZE 93 x 34.5 cm, SIZE incl. mounting 157 x 47.5 cm Provenance: Ex-collection Dr. Claudio Perino, Turin, Italy, acquired mostly in Japan in the early 2000s, collection number CP162. Dr. Claudio Perino is a collector with a keen interest in Japanese, Chinese and Far Eastern cultures. His collection consists of over 2000 works of art, partly loaned to the Museum of Oriental Arts (MAO) in Turin, Italy and to the Museo delle Culture (MUSEC) in Lugano, Switzerland. Condition: Good condition with wear, some soiling, few stains, and flaking to pigment. The mounting with signs of wear and use, and losses associated with worm activity. With an inscribed wood tomobako (storage box). Okyo painted several images of carp, the best known perhaps being a pair of hanging scrolls in the Daijoji Temple, Hyogo, painted in 1789, showing a carp ascending a waterfall and one swimming in calmer waters, see the Exhibition Catalogue of the Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Tokubetsuten Maruyama Okyo: shaseiga sozo eno chosen, p.59, pl.27. Several of Okyo's drawings of carp remained for his students to use when composing their own paintings and like his other illustrations of fish, the artist no doubt based these paintings on studies from life. The carp in East Asian folklore is associated with valour and perseverance and is a theme frequently depicted in Edo period art. Koi no takinobori (ie. the image of a carp climbing a waterfall) recalls the Chinese legend of a carp leaping up the rapids of Lung Men (Dragon Gate) and turning into a Dragon. This became in time a symbol for perseverance and success. Even today this auspicious motif is linked to the Boys' Day Festival (5th day of the fifth month) when carp streamers are ubiquitously displayed. Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795), from present-day Kameoka, Kyoto, was a student at the Kano school of painting. He gained much renown after his first commission, the Seven Misfortunes and Seven Fortunes. As his public image grew, Okyo founded his own school in Kyoto, the Maruyama school of painting, dedicated to his style of blending Western naturalism with Eastern decorative designs. He taught his students to rely on nature to render images in a realistic picture of light, shadow, and forms. The school grew popular, and branches soon appeared in other locations, including Osaka. Much of the school's work is today preserved at Daijo-ji, a temple in Kasumi. Noteworthy pupils include Okyo's son, Maruyama Ozui, Nagasawa Rosetsu, and Matsumura Goshun. Auction comparison: Compare a related hanging scroll painting of a carp, Maruyama School, dated Tenmei 5 (1785), at Bonhams, Fine Japanese Art, 11 May 2010, London, lot 149 (sold for GBP 43,000 or approx. EUR 78,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing).
Galerie Zacke
Feb. 24, 2026
A JAPANESE INK AND COLOUR ON PAPER HANGING SCROLL PAINTING, ATTRIBUTED TO MARUYAMA OKYO (1733-1795)
Est: $500 - $700
A JAPANESE INK AND COLOUR ON PAPER HANGING SCROLL PAINTING, ATTRIBUTED TO MARUYAMA OKYO (1733-1795) Attributed to Maruyama Okyo (1733 - 1795) Yang Guifei ink and colour on silk, hanging scroll, one red seal of the artist, inscribed and signed on the wooden box. 106.5 x 41.5cm (painting)
Leonard Joel
Sep. 16, 2025
Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795). Dragon Amidst Clouds. Hanging scroll; ink and go
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795). Dragon Amidst Clouds. Hanging scroll; ink and gold on silk45 3/8 x 21 1/8 in. (115.3 x 53.7 cm.).
Christie's
Sep. 16, 2025
MARUYAMA OKYO (1733-1795). Ayu (Sweet fish). Hanging scroll; ink and color
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
MARUYAMA OKYO (1733-1795). Ayu (Sweet fish). Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk39 5/8 x 15 7/8 in. (100.6 x 40.3 cm.).
Christie's
Mar. 04, 2025
After Maruyama Okyo "Eguichi no Kimi" Painting
Est: $50 - $500
Shita-e painting after Maruyama Okyo's (1733-1795) work depicting Eguchi no kimi (Lady Eguchi). The work is of a Buddhist trope of enlightened deities astride an emblematic white elephant. By replacing the deity with a beautifully coiffed modern courtesan the image challenges the notion that only superior beings could be considered sacred. Drawn in ink and painted. 32"H X 24îW
Loon Estates
Jan. 17, 2024
OKYO MARUYAMA: THREE CARPS IN A RUNNEL
Est: €50 - €100
OKYO MARUYAMA: THREE CARPS IN A RUNNEL Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795), signed Okyo with seal Japan, 20h century Print from a book, on paper. Signed Okyo with seal. Titled Three Carps in a Runnel. A school of carps swims around in a small brook next to overgrown seaweed. SIZE of the sheet 38.8 x 17 cm Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, trimmed margins, and slight browning of paper. Mounted to a paper passepartout. Provenance: Estate of Wolfgang Zacke (1942-2022), co-founder of Galerie Zacke, thence by descent.
Galerie Zacke
Jun. 14, 2023
AFTER MARUYAMA OKYO (1733-1795): A PRINT OF THREE CARPS IN A RUNNEL
Est: €900 - €1,500
AFTER MARUYAMA OKYO (1733-1795): A PRINT OF THREE CARPS IN A RUNNEL Japan 39 x 17,5 cm From a European private collection, acquired prior to 2007 - Minor wear, framed and glazed
Nagel Auction
May. 25, 2023
[Shunga]. Maruyama Okyô (1733-1795) (after). (Erotic scenes).
Est: €80 - €100
[Shunga]. Maruyama Okyô (1733-1795) (after). (Erotic scenes). Twelve col. woodcuts, each 12,5x18 cm., mounted in leporello silk album. - AND 1 other leporello album w. printed erotic Japanese scenes on cloth (20th cent.).
Bubb > Kuyper: Auctioneers of Books, Fine Arts & Manuscripts
Dec. 04, 2021
Japanese Woodblock Print Maruyama Okyo
Est: $50 - $60
Japanese Woodblock Print after Maruyama Okyo 3 Rabbits
Woodblock Prints World
Dec. 04, 2021
Japanese Woodblock Print Maruyama Okyo
Est: $50 - $60
Japanese Woodblock Print after Maruyama Okyo Standing on an Elephant
Woodblock Prints World
Jan. 19, 2019
Japanese Scroll Painting, Manner of Maruyama Okyo
Est: $300 - $500
**Catalog should read "Attributed to"** Manner of Maruyama Okyo (Japanese, 1733-1795), "Seated Kannon Bosatsu", depicting Kannon Bosatsu seated on the cliff by the waterfall, ink and colors on silk, lower right with the signature and seal, inscribed with date Tenmei era (1781-1789), with a tomobako, painting: 39.75"h x 13.75"w, scroll: 72"h x 18.75"w
Clars Auctions
Feb. 03, 2018
MARUYAMA OKYO (1735 – 1795): LUCKY GOD EBISU WITH CARP
Est: €1,100 - €2,200
Ink and pain on silk. Japan, 18th cent. Ebisu, the patron of fishermen and one of the Shichi Fukujin, Japan’s Seven Lucky Gods, seated on a black rock, surrounded by sea waves. In one hand, he holds up a long fishing rod, in the other, a large tai, ocean carp. This image, painted with free, practiced brushstrokes sensitively depicts finely tuned facial features, smiling, as always, and slightly bearded with thick earlobes as are typical for the Lucky Gods. Of them, Ebisu is the only God of purely Japanese heritage and, as the “God of daily nourishment”, he was widely venerated. He was also the titular patron of merchants. In the bottom right-hand corner is the signature Heian 平安 O-KYO 應舉 and two red seals reading Okyo and Chusen, another of the artist’s names. Heian, literally “peace”, is a reference to an old name for Kyoto. Partially golden, silk-brocade mounting. Accompanying Japanese certificate from Oshin. Wooden box with an inscription reading “scene with Ebisu ...” and Maruyama Okyo fude. Condition report: Very good original condition. IMAGE 105,5 x 28,8 CM, ROLL 194 x 41,2 CM From a private German collection Condition reports and further images are available upon request - Expertise: Wolfmar Zacken
Galerie Zacke
Feb. 06, 2015
SILK EMBROIDERY.
Est: $200 - $300
Okyo Maruyama 1732-1795, Japan. "Peacock" depicting "Juro" and "Seibo" beneath a flowering tree. Housed in a modern frame. SIZE: 12" x 7-1/2". Overall 18" x 13-1/2". CONDITION: Very good. 9-94895
James D. Julia
Jan. 17, 2015
Framed Print of Peacock by Okyo Maruyama
Est: $200 - $400
Small framed hand tinted woodblock depicting male and female peacock. With calligraphy and seal signature. Sight Size: 12 x 8 in Sight Size: 12 x 8 in
Sarasota Estate Auction
Jan. 11, 2014
Group of Japanese Woodblock Prints, Various Artists
Est: $200 - $400
(lot of 6) Group of Japanese woodblock prints: two kuchie from the Meiji period, one by Tomioka Eisen (1864-1905); one depicting a samurai on horse; three prints including Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), and Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795), largest:10.25"h x 9"w, overall (frame) 17.5"h x 14.75"w:
Clars Auctions
May. 29, 2013
Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795) of navolger, 'Oude man
Est: €1,500 - €1,750
Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795) of navolger, 'Oude man met kind', papieren scroll. Japan. Afm. (schildering) 122 x 47 cm. Incl. originele houten kist en extra opbergdoos.
Zeeuws Veilinghuis
Mar. 23, 2011
School of Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795)
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
School of Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795) Tiger Sealed Okyo no in and Chusen Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk 40 7/8 x 6 1/8in. (104 x 15.5cm.)
Christie's
May. 11, 2010
Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795) Maruyama School, dated Tenmei 5 (1785)
Est: £30,000 - £40,000
Maruyama School, dated Tenmei 5 (1785) Kakejiku, in sumi on silk, depicting a carp (koi) ascending a waterfall, signed Tenmei kinoto-mi shoto sha Okyo (painted by Okyo in early Winter in the year of the Snake [1785]) with two seals Okyo no in and Chusen; with double wood storage boxes, the inside of the inner box inscribed Maruyama Okyo o shinseki, Maruyama nanasei, Osho sen (authenticated by Maruyama Osho, seventh generation of the Maruyama school, as being by Okyo), with seal Osho. 104cm x 40cm (41in x 15¾in). (3).
Bonhams
Sep. 17, 2009
Attributed to Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795)
Est: $60,000 - $80,000
Attributed to Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795) Jinbutsu seisha sohon (Exact sketches of human bodies) Signed, dated and titled Jinbutsu seisha sohon heikan bannin aimirubeshi nenrei bankotsuho kouchi zen sankan Meiwa nana kanoe-tora fuyu (winter, 1770) Okyo oju and with kao (cursive monogram) Three handscrolls; ink and color on paper Vol.1: 12¼ x 388½in. (31 x 986.8cm.); vol.2: 12¼ x 458in. (31 x 1,163.3cm.); vol.3: 12¼ x 422¾in. (31 x 1,073.8cm.) (3)
Christie's
Mar. 17, 2009
Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795)
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795) Hen, rooster and pheasants Each signed Mo Shokado hitsu-i (painted after Shokado Shojo) Okyo, each sealed Okyo no in and Chusen Triptych of hanging scrolls; ink, color and gold on silk 14 1/8 x 15½in. (36 x 39.5cm.) each (3)
Christie's