SHIBUNKAKU ONLINE SHOP | Soga Shōhaku

Born into a merchant family of Kyoto, Shōhaku became a painter in his 20s, studying under the Kano school master Takada Keiho. Stylistically versatile, he painterly range spans works in full color and monochrome ink, often centering on unconventional subject matter or compositions and dynamic brushwork. Shōhaku quickly achieved a reputation as an eccentric, likely fostered by his claims of successorship to the Muromachi-period Soga school and his erratic behavior towards his contemporaries.