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Pair of Portraits of Samurai-Officials: Hirai Kyosei and Hirai Rinsei
Sando Hyosho (Japanese)
Tsukioka Settei (Japanese, 1710–1786)
1776
- Medium
- hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk
- Classification
- Painting
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
