SOGA CHOKUAN

died after 1610, , Sakai?, Japan Japanese painter who specialized in bird-and-flower pictures and founded the Soga family of artists. He is especially noted as a painter of fowl (as his son Chokuan II was noted as a painter of falcons). His brightly coloured, realistic bird-and-flower screen paintings are in the Hoki Temple on Mount Koya, the Daitoku Temple in Kyoto, and the Tokyo National Museum. He also did Chinese-style, or suiboku (water-ink), paintings executed rapidly with a stiff brush on screens, such as The Four Grayhairs and Three Laughers (Henjoko Temple, Mount Koya).