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(signature and seals)

186* TP Published:
Fuchu-shi Bijutsukan (Fuchu Art Museum), Edo no jinbutsuga: Sugata
SOGA SHOGETSU (DATES UNKNOWN) no bi, chikara, ki (Figure Paintings from the Edo Period: The Beauty,
Edo period (1615-1868), late 18th/early 19th century Power, and Eccentricity of Human Figures), exhibition catalogue,
A four-panel folding screen (the left-hand half of a pair), converted from Tokyo, 2011, cat. no.55.
two fusuma (sliding paper doors), the traces of the original hikite (door-
uplls) visible in the centre and at the left, ink on paper, depicting the Even if this screen were not signed with the names Jasokken and
Chinese warrior Zhangliang (in Japanese, Choryo) standing beneath Soga and an artist name beginning with the character Sho, one
a large pine tree, his sword held in his right hand and pointing at would know immediately from its bold ink composition and powerfully
the ground in front of the calm kneeling figure of Huangshigong (in expressionist figural delineation, based on Chinese legend, that it
Japanese, Kosekiko, the ‘Yellow-Stone Elder’) with his hands clasped comes from the circle of the famed individualist painter Soga Shohaku
together inside his sleeves, cradling a scroll in his right forearm, with (1730-1781). Shogetsu is one of a tiny handful of identified followers
rocks and plants in the background, signed on the left Jasokken Soga of Shohaku and is known for a small number of recorded works,
Shogetsu with four seals, one to the right reading Shijo...bin and three as follows:
to the left, the first two of them reading Naoyoshi no in and Shogetsu.
385cm x 185cm (152in x 73in).

£10,000 - 15,000
JPY1,400,000 - 2,100,000
US$12,000 - 19,000

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