
Rai San’yôJapanese, 1780–1832Gourd with Seals
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
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain



















