Lot 152: Shokado Shojo (1584-1639)

Jurojin, Kanzan and Jittoku
Each signed Nanzan inshi Shokado, each sealed Shojo'o and Shokado
Triptych of hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk
48 x 18 1/8in. (122 x 46cm.) each (3)

Osaka Bijutsu Club, "Shokado to Rinpa no nagare" (Shokado and the Rinpa school), 1997.5.16

PUBLISHED:
Yamato Bunkakan, ed., Tokubetsuten Shokado Shojo: Chanoyu no kokoro to hitsuboku (Special exhibition of Shokado Shojo: Spirit of tea ceremony and works in ink) (Nara: Yamato Bunkakan, 1993), p. 108.

Hirooka family (Kashimaya), Osaka

Shokado lived in Iwashimizu Hachiman Shrine in Kyoto. He studied Shingon Buddhism and achieved the title Ajari Hoin. He studied painting with Kano Sanraku (1559-1635) and is also known as one of three best calligraphers of the Kan'ei era together with Honnami Koetsu (1558-1637) and Konoe Nobutada (1565-1614).

For a similar triptych by Shokado of Yuima, Kanzan and Jittoku in the Nomura Museum of Art, Kyoto, see the Yamato Bunkakan catalogue cited above, pl. 40.