Gourd with Seals, Rai San’yô, 1790 - 1832
Rai San’yô, portraitRai San’yôJapanese, 1780–1832

Gourd with Seals

1790 - 1832 · hanging scroll

Can I see it?

Unknown

Where is “Gourd with Seals” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

Source
The museum

About the painting

Rai Sanyo was a Confucian scholar, poet, author, and calligrapher. He also owned a large collection of seals. Impressions of his many seals were recorded in books and handscrolls. Here, 57 examples fill, as it were, a hanging gourd.

Rijksmuseum

Details

Accession number
AK-RAK-2015-2-9

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