Gourd with Seals, Rai San’yô, 1790 - 1832
sumi on paper on grey/beige damask with Box [1693//33], h 207cm × w 32.8cm More details
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.
