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Pair of Portraits of Samurai-Officials: Hirai Kyosei and Hirai Rinsei
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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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePair of Portraits of Samurai-Officials: Hirai Kyosei and Hirai Rinsei, 1776. Sando Hyosho (Japanese), Tsukioka Settei (Japanese, 1710–1786). Hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk. The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1999.89
