Background
Soga Chokuan lived in the 1600th.
曽我 直庵
Soga Chokuan lived in the 1600th.
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.