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Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa)

1909

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Kamisaka Sekka 神坂 雪佳

(Japanese, 1866–1942)

Japan, Meiji period

(1868-1912)

Ink and color on paper

John L. Severance Fund 1989.85

Location

not on view

Description

This is the cover for a group of 22 preparatory drawings for Kamisaka Sekka's print series Flowers of a Hundred Worlds.

Provenance
?–1989
(Yanagi Fine Art Shop, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1989–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Turner, Evan. H. “The Year in Review: Selections 1989.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 77, no. 2, 1990, pp. 38–78. Mentioned: p. 76, cat. no. 183 www.jstor.org
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
Ehrlich, Linda C. The Films of Kore-Eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Reproduced: p. 183, fig. 2 (1989.85.4 only)
Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1989.85