# Gourd with Seals

- By: Rai San’yô (1780–1832)
- Date: 1790 - 1832
- Medium: paper
- Classification: hanging scroll
- Dimensions: height 123.5 cm x width 43.3 cm
- Credit line: Gift of J.P. Filedt Kok, Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/AK-RAK-2015-2-9--81a0f5ed50044f1e92eb659fdc8ead2e)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/b1e8a3f0b20265930b6dea4b28d90500.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.