This school of painting formed the transmission of techniques of pure Japanese painting, i.e., so-called Yamato-e painting, and dominated the Edokoro government office by heredity for about one thousand long years from the Heian period.
本画派は、純日本的ないわゆる大和絵の伝法を樹立し、平安時代よりおよそ一千年の長きにわたって朝廷の絵所を世襲した。