# Pair of Portraits of Samurai-Officials: Hirai Kyosei and Hirai Rinsei

- By: Sando Hyosho (Japanese)
- By: Tsukioka Settei (Japanese, 1710–1786)
- Date: 1776
- Medium: hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk
- Classification: Painting
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.89)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1999.89/1999.89_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.