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Collection Online as of August 18, 2022

Inscription, from Album of Precious Works from Famous Early Modern Calligraphers and Painters

1817

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Rai Sanyō 頼 山陽

(Japanese, 1780–1832)

Japan, Edo period

(1615-1868)

Double-leaf from a pair of folding-albums; ink on silk

Each page: 25.9 x 18 cm (10 3/16 x 7 1/16 in.)

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 1972.117.1.1

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

From a samurai family, Rai Sanyō sought to evade training to be a bureaucrat, leading his father to lock him in his room for three years.

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