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Soga Shohaku

Artist

WA-00056617

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None documented

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70%

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Authority Records (1)

WikidataQ3076703

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1 cross-verified · 5 single-source

Is PublishedManual· 100%✓
Birth yearWikidata· 92%
Death yearWikidata· 92%
NationalityWikidata· 92%
Primary mediumWikidata· 92%
BiographyWikipedia· 88%

Source Registry (2)

Artsy (bulk)https://www.artsy.net/artist/soga-shohaku-1
Tier 1 · Institutional85%
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Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred85%

About

Why this artist matters now

Soga Shohaku was an Edo-period painter who deliberately revived the brush techniques of the Muromachi period, an aesthetic already archaic by his lifetime. His paintings rendered prominent figures as grotesque, monstrous forms, a radical departure from the refined portraiture conventions of his contemporaries. Working against the prevailing tastes of eighteenth-century Japan, Shohaku pursued an aggressively archaic visual language that transformed historical subjects into unsettling, distorted presences.

Source: Artsy · Trust score: 85% · Updated 1mo ago

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Artworks (3)

Orchid Pavilion Gathering

1777 · hanging scroll; ink on silk

Painting: 122.7 x 55.7 cm (48 5/16 x 21 15/16 in.); Mounted: 197.4 x 58.8 cm (77 11/16 x 23 1/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup

1765 · pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and cut-gold foil on paper

Overall: 120 x 352.2 cm (47 1/4 x 138 11/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Resting Ox

1750 · painting technique on paper, silk, ink

width: 69.7 cm, width: 54.2 cm, height: 132.5 cm, height: 223 cm, height: 9.5 cm, width: 79 cm, depth: 10 cm

Rijksmuseum

Artwork sources (4)

3 published of 31 catalogued · 31 with image

Cleveland Museum of Art
2 published2 img
Rijksmuseum
1 published1 img
+ 2 more sources · 28 catalogued, not yet published

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9 entries · 2 sources

The Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup
1765 · Cleveland · 4 prov
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Orchid Pavilion Gathering
1777 · Cleveland · 4 prov
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Resting Ox
1750 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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