Portrait of Samurai-Official: Hirai KyoseiHirai Kyosei, by Tsukioka Settei, 1776
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Portrait of Samurai-Official: Hirai KyoseiHirai Kyosei

Tsukioka Settei (Japanese, 1710–1786)

inscription by Sando Hyosho (Japanese)

1776

Medium
hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
Overall: 187.9 x 55.9 cm (74 x 22 in.); Painting only: 96.5 x 38.3 cm (38 x 15 1/16 in.)
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.