Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Flower-draped Carts (1909): Art, History and Details

Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Flower-draped Carts (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): Flower-draped Carts
• Date: 1909
• Creator attribution: Kamisaka Sekka (Japanese, 1866–1942)
• Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: ink and color on paper
• Collection: DR - Japanese
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1989.85.2

A detail from the museum

This is the original drawing for a print in the second volume of the print series Flowers of a Hundred Worlds.

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

View the collection record

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