Portrait of Samurai-Official: Hirai Rinsei
1776
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
About the artist
1776
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Portrait of Samurai-Official: Hirai Rinsei is a 1776 unspecified by Tsukioka Settei, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a stiff-backed samurai in a dark robe holding a fan. His face is calm but the artist adds tiny lines to show age and strength. Two long columns of Japanese writing sit beside him in the same calm style. Settei made two portraits of local leaders from the Hirai family. Each figure got a matching calligraphic note from a different scholar-official. The calligraphy feels as precise as the brushwork on the faces. Look up Tsukioka Settei to see more of his Edo-period samurai images.
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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