Soga's Extraordinary Aspect

Japanese: 曾我蛇足 - そが・じゃそく

Year of birth: Year of birth and death unknown A painter representing the Soga school during the Muromachi period. He was also called "Dasoku." There are many points about him that are unclear. The sliding door paintings at Shinjuan, a subtemple of Daitokuji Temple (c. 1491), which is famous as the oldest surviving sliding door paintings in a Zen temple, are said to have been painted by Soga Jasoku, and research on Jasoku has been centered on the authorship of this sliding door painting. The most likely theory is that it was Fusen Sojo, the son of Bokukei, who is thought to be the founder of the Soga school, but there is no definitive proof. However, it is certain that several works bearing the "red fly" seal, such as "Sansui-zu" (owned by the Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art), were painted by the same artist as the Shinjuan paintings, due to the close affinities of style. There is also a theory that "Jasoku" was a hereditary pen name for a painter of the Soga school, but this cannot be found in contemporary historical materials, and no conclusion has been reached. <References> "Complete Collection of Shohekiga" 8 volumes, "Complete Collection of Japanese Art Paintings" 3 volumes

(Yuji Yamashita)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
室町時代の曾我派を代表する画家。「だそく」とも呼ぶ。その実体は不明な点が多い。現存する禅宗寺院の障壁画中最古のものとして著名な大徳寺塔頭真珠庵襖絵(1491頃)は曾我蛇足筆という伝承があり,蛇足の研究は専らこの襖絵の筆者論を軸として議論されてきた。曾我派の始祖と思われる墨渓の子,夫泉宗丈を当てる説が有力だが,確証はない。ただし「山水図」(群馬県立近代美術館蔵)など,「赤蠅」印を押す数点の作品が真珠庵画と同一筆者であることは,様式の近親性によって確実である。「蛇足」は曾我派の画家の世襲号であるとする説もあるが,同時代史料には見出せず,結論は出ていない。<参考文献>『障壁画全集』8巻,『日本美術絵画全集』3巻

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