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context: painting > great schools > maruyama
Soga Shohaku 1730-81
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Shoki Ensnaring a Demon in a Spider Wed, by Soga Shohaku |
Shohaku was a pupil of the slightly younger Maruyama Okyo, and was a wildly varied artist - some western-style birds, not unlike his fellow pupil Ito Jakuchu, for instance, and some overtly impossible landscapes in something like the classic style of Sesshu, and then works like the one on this page, a strange mix of Zen/Chinese styles with wilder (but still subtly controlled) brushwork, wit and variety. It might be hard to make major claims for Shohaku, but I find him a frequent delight.
backwards: Maruyama Okyo
forwards: Nagasawa Rosetsu