AT-00010197
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Portrait of Samurai-Official: Hirai KyoseiHirai Kyosei
Also known as: Pair of Portraits of Samurai-Officials: Hirai Kyosei
About the Artwork
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.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Tsukioka Settei (Japanese, 1710–1786)
- Date
- 1776
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- 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.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 1999.89.1
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Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00010197
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