The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 15, 2026

A vertically oriented leaf of cream paper features five columns of black ink calligraphy brushed in a fluid, cursive style. Characters vary in thickness, displaying dark, saturated pools and thin, trailing remnants. A single red seal sits in the upper right corner, while two more red stamps mark the lower left beneath the final column. The page is mounted on a wider, light-toned paper border.

Poem

early 1800s

Rai Sanyō

(Japanese, 1780–1832)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
leaf from a pair of folding-albums; ink on paper
Sheet: 26.7 x 18 cm (10 1/2 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 1972.117.2.2
Location: Not on view
  • ?–1972
    (Kuniyoshi Miura, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1972–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH
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