The Deva Bishamonten

Original Japanese:
落款から広当が53歳のときに描いたことがわかる毘沙門天像。水墨を基調に淡彩・金彩を施したもので、小画面ながら、帯や衣が風になびく姿を肥痩（ひそう）のある線でよく表している。鎌倉時代の絵仏師家の再興として誕生した住吉家の一端を担う、広当らしい一幅である。

AI Translation:
The signature indicates that Hirotō painted this image of Bishamonten at the age of fifty-three. Executed primarily in ink with light color and gold, the small work skillfully uses modulated lines to show the deity’s sash and robes streaming in the wind. It is a characteristic work by Hirotō, a member of the Sumiyoshi school, which was established as a revival of the Kamakura-period tradition of Buddhist painters.