Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Spring Field (Haru no tanomo) (1909): Art, History and Details
Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Spring Field (Haru no tanomo) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1909, ink and on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Spring Field (Haru no tanomo) (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): Spring Field (Haru no tanomo)
- Date: 1909
- Creator attribution: Kamisaka Sekka (Japanese, 1866–1942)
- Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
- Type: Drawing
- Technique: ink and on paper
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Department: Japanese Art
- Accession number: 1989.85.16
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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