Cleveland Museum of Art
Pair of Portraits of Samurai-Officials: Hirai Kyosei and Hirai Rinsei
Sando Hyosho
- Date
- 1776
- Medium
- hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
In this pair of figure paintings, the artist provided generational portraits of two clan leaders from the Hirai family, accompanied by lengthy inscriptions in a distinctive calligraphic style from separate scholar-officials.
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