Portrait of Samurai-Official: Hirai Rinsei

Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Samurai-Official: Hirai Rinsei

Tsukioka Settei

Date
1776
Medium
hanging scroll; 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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