# Beggar (Kojiki), in Hirafuku Suian's contemporaries

Hirafuku Suian painted this in 1871, aged 27. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> The Japanese term for beggar, kojiki, derives from the word kotsujiki, which refers to Buddhist monks taking bowls from door to door to request sustenance. The son of the artist Suian Bunrō, Suian Hirafuku was born in Kakunodate in Japan’s northern Akita prefecture. When he was 16, he went to study in Kyoto.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1871
- Medium: hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions: Overall: 215.3 x 93 cm (84 3/4 x 36 5/8 in.); Painting only: 141 x 70.8 cm (55 1/2 x 27 7/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1988.73
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Hirafuku Suian](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/hirafuku-suian), Japanese, 1844–1890

1 works in the collection.

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