{"id":4165,"date":"2024-02-26T10:30:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T01:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=4165"},"modified":"2024-02-26T10:30:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T01:30:39","slug":"miscellaneous-paintings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=4165","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Soga Sh\u014dhaku<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mid-Edo Period (18<sup>th<\/sup> century)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donated by Homma Y\u016bsuke<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This picture scroll is meant to conjure up the imagery of the 12<sup>th<\/sup>\/13<sup>th<\/sup> century <em>Ch\u014dj\u016b-jinbutsu-giga<\/em>, a famous set of four picture scrolls featuring frolicking animals. It portrays whimsical scenery, characters, and flora and fauna, including sumo matches between octopi and frogs. Also featured are various parrots situated on a Burmese rosewood. Sh\u014dhaku\u2019s art tends to feature his particular eccentricities, and this painting is overflowing with humor and adorable character. It serves as a charming way to see an unexpected side of Sh\u014dhaku.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soga Sh\u014dhaku (1739-81) is said to have been born into a merchant family in Kyoto.<strong> <\/strong>He also went by the name of Teruo, and also used the sobriquet Dasoku Ken. He studied art under the tutelage of Takada Keiho of the Kyoto branch of the Kan\u014d School. He also went by the title of Dazoku the 10th, proclaiming himself an artistic descendent of the Soga School, which had been active in ink wash painting hundreds of years earlier during the Muromachi era. The eerie expressiveness of his character work and his intense sense of color, coupled with anecdotes of his atypical personality, allow Sh\u014dhaku to stand out as an individualistic painter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soga Sh\u014dhaku Mid-Edo Period (18th century) Donated by Homma Y\u016bsuke This picture scroll is meant to conjure up &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4200,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions\/4200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}