Furuyama Moromasa

1695-1748) was a Japanese ukiyo-e painter and print artist active during the 18th century.

He was born in Edo (Tokyo), the son of the artist Furuyama Moroshige, who in turn was the son of the master artist Hishikawa Moronobu but established his lineage, the Furuyama School.

[1] Moromasa designed woodblock prints with genre scenes of ordinary life, sporting contests, activities in the Yoshiwara district, and similar subjects.

He was one of the first Japanese artists to use linear perspective, a technique first used to show interiors, such as tea houses, in a genre known as uki-e.

Moromasa's most famous work is a pair of handscroll paintings depicting the theater district (Azuma yarō; owned by Central Library, Edinburgh) and brothel district (Shinobu-yama; owned by Museo Stibbert, Florence) of Edo, measuring 13 meters and 16 meters long respectively.