Soga Shōhaku
1730–1781 · Japanese painting · 3 works
Soga Shōhaku stages gatherings and stories within expansive painted settings. In these works, figures meet among rocks, trees and buildings, sometimes spread across a folding screen. Distinct poses and changes of scale keep the human activity visible even when mountains and landscape occupy much of the image.
3 works · 1750–1777
Track how the figures lead your eye from one part of the screen to another.
Chōbunsai Eishi
Nanamachi of the Yotsumeya with Attendants Sumano and Akashi, c. 1787
Hon’ami Kōetsu
A Poem from the Shin Kokinshu with Design of Shinobugusa (Moss Fern), 1605-10
Ike Taiga
Fishing in a Springtime Valley, 1700s
