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

1776

hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk

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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.

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