Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): God of Thunder (Raijin) (1909): Art, History and Details

Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): God of Thunder (Raijin) (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): God of Thunder (Raijin)
• Date: 1909
• Creator attribution: Kamisaka Sekka (Japanese, 1866–1942)
• Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: ink and color on paper
• Dimensions: Overall: 27.3 x 39.4 cm (10 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.)
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1989.85.1

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• 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.

View the collection record

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