Mount Horai

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Soga Shohaku (1730-1781)
Mount Horai
Signed Shohaku, sealed Dasokuken Shohaku and Terukazu
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
51 ¼ x 21 ¾ in. (130.2 x 55.2 cm.)
With wood box

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Lot Essay

The artist, Soga Shohaku considered one of the great eccentrics and innovators of the Edo period. For a similar painting by this artist,

another painting by Shogetsu, see Chiba City Museum of Art and Mie Prefectural Museum, eds., Soga Shohaku ten-Edo no kisai/Exhibition Soga Shohaku (Tokyo: Asahi shinbunsha, 1998), pl. 78.

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