Seki Nanrai

• Other Names: 関世美 (Seki Seibi)
• Japanese: 関 南頼 (Seki Nanrai)

Seki Nanrai, also known by his art-name Seki Seibi, was a Confucian scholar born in Osaka. He contributed an Introduction (jo) to the 1768 Gishi gakufu, a significant publication on Ming-style music.

Seki died sometime in the 1780s.

References

• Britten Dean, “Mr. Gi’s Music Book: An Annotated Translation of Gi Shimei’s Gi-shi gakufu,” Monumenta Nipponica 37:3 (1982), 320.