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Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Chrysanthemum Boy (Kikujidō)

1909

Kamisaka Sekka

(Japanese, 1866–1942)
Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
ink and color on paper
John L. Severance Fund 1989.85.20
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.
  • ?–1989
    (Yanagi Fine Art Shop, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1989–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • 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. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 252-B2, p. 263
    Lemonedes, Heather. “Imaging the Garden: The garden is a ground plot for the mind. —Thomas Hill, The Gardener’s Labyrinth (1577).” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 55, no. 6 (November/December 2015): 4–6. Reproduced: p. 3 archive.org
  • Rinpa (琳派). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 23-October 3, 2021).
    Imagining the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016).
    Kamisakka Sekka: Rimpa Master - Pioneer of Modern Design. Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama (May 23-August 1, 2004).
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