Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Dancing (Odori) (1909): Art, History and Details

Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Dancing (Odori) (1909) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Kamisaka Sekka (Japanese, 1866–1942).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Dancing (Odori)
• Date: 1909
• Creator attribution: Kamisaka Sekka (Japanese, 1866–1942)
• Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: ink and color on paper
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1989.85.4

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• 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.
• Ehrlich, Linda C. The Films of Kore-Eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

View the collection record

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