Chokuan Soga

Chokuan Soga (Japanese: 曽我 直庵) was a Japanese painter recognized for his bird-and-flower paintings.

Within the bird-and-flower idiom, Soga excelled at painting landfowl, such as roosters: With careful brushwork and rich tones, he gave them an attitude of fierce dignity. He also he worked rapidly, as this was the fashion in ink wash painting at the time.

Although several of his works are extant, the details of his life are mostly undocumented. He was born in the late 16th century, and is believed to have died sometime during or after the Keichō period.

Soga had a son, Nichokuan (literally, Chokuan II). Nichokuan continued the Soga school, and is known for his impressive renderings of hawks.