In those days, a person's portrait was often drawn often after death, so the painter had to draw the portraits without actually seeing the model and therefore needed to imagine in order to draw, which should also have been the case with Kazan's drawing of Kinrei's portrait.
当時、肖像画は当人の没後に描かれることが多く、画家はしばしば実際に実物を見ることなく、やむを得ず死者を思い出しながら描くことがしばしばあり、崋山の琴嶺像執筆もそうなる予定だった。