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Mori Sosen [Jokansai; Reibyoan; Reimyoan; Sosen]
(b ?Nagasaki or Nishinomiya, 1747; d Osaka, 1821). Japanese painter. He probably began his training under his father, the Osaka painter Mori Jokansai [Hanaya Seibei] (d 1777). He is recorded as studying with Okamoto Yukoku ( fl 18th century), who also taught his father and his elder brother, Mori Shuho (1738–1823), and with the KANO SCHOOL painter Yamamoto [Shobei] Joshunsai (1721–84). Sosen is also known to have associated with many prominent artists and scholars who lived in or passed through Osaka, including the Confucian scholar and patron Kimura Kenkado and the literati painters Tani Buncho and Tanomura Chikuden. His acquaintance with MARUYAMA OKYO can only be assumed because his adopted son Mori Tetsuzan [Tessan] (1775–1841) was one of Okyo’s ‘Ten Great Disciples’, but Okyo’s influence is evident in Sosen’s work.
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