Pair of Portraits of Samurai-Officials: Hirai Kyosei and Hirai Rinsei
- Medium
- hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk
- Genre
- Painting
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
About
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.