Soga Shōhaku
| Soga Shōhaku | |
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%2C_Shoki_Ensnaring_a_Demon_in_a_Spider_Web%2C_18th_century%2C_Japan%2C_Edo_period%2C_Two-fold_screen%3B_ink_on_paper%2C_Kimbell_Art_Museum.jpg) 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 |
30 January 1781[1] 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.[1]
Shōhaku's birth name was Miura Sakonjirō. His family was wealthy, but all of his immediate family members died before he reached age 18.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Soga Shōhaku". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
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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