A Brushstroke in the Castle Town: The Life and Art of Maejima Sōyū The name Maejima Sōyū resonates quietly within the annals of 16th-century Japanese painting, a period brimming with both established traditions and burgeoning innovation. Active primarily in the mid-Muromachi period, Sōyū wasn’t a solitary genius forging entirely new paths, but rather a skilled practitioner deeply embedded within the influential Kanō school, specifical…