During the early modern ages a large number of Buddhist paintings were created, which are classified by shape into paintings on the walls of fusuma of a building and painting on folding screens, and by genres into literati painting, Rimpa school, MARUYAMA Shijo school, Ukiyoe, and others, and therefore it is difficult to say that Buddhist paintings were of the main stream in the history of paintings.
近世にも仏教絵画は多数制作されるが、この時代には形の上では障壁画、屏風絵、ジャンルの上では文人画、琳派、円山四条派、浮世絵などさまざまな絵画が制作され、仏教絵画は絵画史の主流であったとは言いがたい。