Portrait of Okabe Jiro

At the center of the canvas is a man with black hair falling to his shoulders and a mustache. A white collar shows above his dark jacket, and he looks down at a large white sheet of paper spread open before him. The background is a pale color, and a signature and date appear in the upper right.

According to the Mie Prefectural Art Museum's records, the work is oil on canvas, 45.7 cm high by 37.5 cm wide. In the upper right it is signed "AVRIL. 1898." and "S.OKADA"; the date is written with the French word for April. Okada studied in France from 1897 to 1902 as a Ministry of Education scholar, so the portrait was made during that stay.

The museum's records do not say who Okabe Jiro was. The painting has been shown in exhibitions around Japan, beginning with the 1993 Okada Saburosuke exhibition, including shows tracing the history of Western-style painting in Japan. In 2025 it was again on view in a display of the Mie museum's own collection.