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Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): God of Thunder (Raijin)

1909

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Kamisaka Sekka 神坂 雪佳

(Japanese, 1866–1942)

Japan, Meiji period

(1868-1912)

Ink and color on paper

Overall: 27.3 x 39.4 cm (10 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1989.85.1

Location

not on view

Description

Kamisaka Sekka made preparatory drawings for his Flowers of a Hundred Worlds series on tracing paper with ink and color. The freehand sketches are much looser than the finished, printed compositions.

Provenance
?–1989
(Yanagi Fine Art Shop, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1989–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Wood, Donald Alan, Yūko Ikeda 池田祐子, and Kurt A. Gitter. Kamisaka Sekka: Rinpa no keishō [神坂雪佳: 琳派の継承 = Kamisaka Sekka: Rimpa master, pioneer of modern design]. Kyōto: Kyōto Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, 2003. cat. no. 252-B2, p. 263
Exhibition history

Kamisakka Sekka: Rimpa Master - Pioneer of Modern Designs. National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan (September 9-October 19, 2003).

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