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A pair of six-fold screens, colour and gold pigment on silk, each depicting the Higashiyama area of Kyoto; one covered in snow and another with a spring landscape; each signed and sealed Baisen, with original fitted wood box titled Higashiyama Shunto [Spring and Winter in Higashiyama] and signed Baisen saku
173.7 x 364.6 cm. (68⅜ x 143½ in.) each when unfolded


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Having studied at Kyoto Prefectural School of Arts and Crafts (currently Kyoto City Unversity of Arts), Hirai won a prize at the Bunten only one year after graduation. He went on to become a regular prize winner at both the Bunten and Teiten and also actively worked to establish an artist organisation called Toka-kai with Irie Hako (1887-1948) and Sakakibara Shiho (1887-1971).

For a pair of screens in The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto dated 1919 visit
http://search.artmuseums.go.jp/records.php?sakuhin=150784

His works are also in other major collections including The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, and the Seattle Art Museum.

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