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Art History
Painting
Realistic sketches of nature made for study purposes, often in small handscroll format and later mounted in an album. The artists of the *Maruyama-Shijō-ha 円山四条派 are usually associated with shaseiga, having synthesized the decorative *yamato-e やまと絵 tradition with a realistic study of nature. However, this naturalistic tendency eventually prevailed in other schools in the latter half of the Edo period, and many sketches were left by such artists as Ogata Kōrin 尾形光琳 (1658-1716) and Kano Tan'yū 狩野探幽(1602-74) as well as Maruyama Ōkyo 円山応挙 (1733-95).