Takuma Shōga, original name Takuma Tamemoto

Takuma Shōga, original name Takuma Tamemoto (flourished 12th century, Kyōto, Japan) 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. 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...