Waterfall

On the narrow vertical format, a waterfall pours down from a steep rocky mountain. At the lower left, a large pine and a house are set in dark ink, and two figures can be seen inside the house. At the lower right, a rider on a donkey crosses an earthen bridge, accompanied by what seems to be an attendant.

Depth is built up by changing the density of the ink with distance: the dark tree and house in front, the waterfall in the middle, and clouds trailing over distant mountains. At the upper left are the signature "Dasokuken Shohaku ga" and a white-relief square seal reading "Yuson."

The museum says that, judging from the signature and seals, this is a work from Shohaku's mature period, from his late thirties to early forties, when skill and ambition were well balanced. Shohaku is said to have admired the Muromachi-period painter Soga Dasoku and to have taken the Soga name from him.