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Inscription and Two Seals
Rai Sanyō (Japanese, 1780–1832)
1829
- Medium
- leaf from a pair of folding albums; ink on paper
- Classification
- Portfolio
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 26.2 x 18.2 cm (10 5/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Mary B. Lee, C. Bingham Blossom, Dudley S. Blossom III, Laurel B. Kovacik, and Elizabeth B. Blossom, in memory of Elizabeth B. Blossom
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Rai Sanyō, author of a major history of Japan, died from tuberculosis while writing at his desk. A decidedly not fun fact.
