Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Rooster (Chabo) (1909): Art, History and Details
Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Rooster (Chabo) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1909, ink and color on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Rooster (Chabo) (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): Rooster (Chabo)
- 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: 1989.85.9
Collection credit
John L. Severance Fund
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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