Soga Shōhaku (曾我蕭白) (1730–1781) was a Japanese painter of the Edo period. Shōhaku distinguished himself from his contemporaries by preferring the brush style of the Muromachi period, an aesthetic that was already passé 150 years before his birth.[1]

Soga Shōhaku
Shoki Ensnaring a Demon in a Spider Web by Soga Shōhaku. Ink on papered folding screen. Photograph by Kimbell Art Museum.
Born	Miura Sakonjirō 1730 Either Ise or Kyōto[1]
Died	(1781-01-30)30 January 1781[1] Kyōto
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Painter

Shōhaku's birth name was Miura Sakonjirō. His family was wealthy, but all of his immediate family members died before he reached the age of 18.

Work and studies

As a young man, he was a student of Takada Keiho of the prominent Kanō School, which drew upon Chinese techniques and subject matters.[2] His disillusionment with the school led him to appreciate the works of Muromachi era painter Soga Jasoku. He began to use the earlier style of brushstroke, painting mostly monochromes, despite the fact it had become unfashionable.[1]

His work is held in the permanent collections of several museums worldwide, including the Brooklyn Museum,[3] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[4] the Philadelphia Museum of Art,[5] the Princeton University Art Museum,[6] the Minneapolis Institute of Art,[7] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[8] the Indianapolis Museum of Art,[9] the Birmingham Museum of Art,[10] the Walters Art Museum,[11] the British Museum,[12] the Harvard Art Museums,[13] the Dallas Museum of Art,[14] and the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum.[15]

Gallery

• 
  The Daoist Immortal: Li Tieguai and Liu Haichan (Museum of Fine Arts Boston)
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  Orchid pavilion gathering (National Gallery of Victoria)
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  The Three Laughers of Tiger Ravine (Indianapolis Museum of Art)
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  Beauty (Nara Prefectural Museum of Art)
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  Sessen Dōji-zu (Mie Prefectural Art Museum)

References

External links

• Media related to Soga Shohaku at Wikimedia Commons
• "River Landscape by Soga Shōhaku". Brooklyn Museum. 1998. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
• Bridge of dreams: the Mary Griggs Burke collection of Japanese art, a catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Soga Shōhaku (see index)

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