生姜 琢磨
Takuma Shoga was born about 1250. He was a member of a Japanese family of professional artists who specialized in Buddhist paintings (butsuga), creating a new style of religious painting that incorporated features of Chinese Southern Sung art.
He belonged to the Takuma school of painting during the Kamakura Period and was awarded the title of Hoin in recognition of his talent. Takuma's work was very distinctive and Buddhist paintings of the Kamakura Period were deeply influenced by him.
A high-ranking priest of the Shingon sect of Buddhism, Shōga painted butsuga for the Tō and Jingō (or Takaosan) temples with which he was associated in Kyōto, as well as for individual court noblemen who used his paintings in their private religious observances.
