肖像画

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 肖像画, read しょうぞうが, is a portrait painting centered on the appearance of a particular person.
• Basic usage: It may depict a founder and hang in a reception room or be painted from an elderly sitter by a window.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• A picture portraying a particular person
  • This is a painting centered on a particular person, such as a founder or an old man by a window. It differs from a landscape or decoration with no human subject.