Soga Shōhaku

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
Died	(1781-01-30)30 January 1781 Kyōto
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Painter

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.

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

Gallery

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  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)

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)