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Kamisaka Sekka made preparatory drawings for his <em>Flowers of a Hundred Worlds</em> series on tracing paper with ink and color. The freehand sketches are much looser than the finished, printed compositions.

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Document identity
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155086
label
Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Chrysanthemum Boy (Kikujidō)
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drawing
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Source metadata
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155086
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drawing
title
Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Chrysanthemum Boy (Kikujidō)
description
Kamisaka Sekka made preparatory drawings for his <em>Flowers of a Hundred Worlds</em> series on tracing paper with ink and color. The freehand sketches are much looser than the finished, printed compositions.
date
1909
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q79943096
creators
1115
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Drawing
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1
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Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
accession
1989.85.20
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ink and color on paper
tombstone
Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Chrysanthemum Boy (Kikujidō), 1909. Kamisaka Sekka (Japanese, 1866–1942). Ink and color on paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1989.85.20
collection
Japanese Art
citations
citation
Wood, Donald Alan, Yūko Ikeda 池田祐子, and Kurt A. Gitter. <em>Kamisaka Sekka: Rinpa no keishō</em> [神坂雪佳: 琳派の継承 = Kamisaka Sekka: Rimpa master, pioneer of modern design]. Kyōto: Kyōto Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, 2003.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 252-B2, p. 263
citation
Lemonedes, Heather. “Imaging the Garden: The garden is a ground plot for the mind. —Thomas Hill, <em>The Gardener’s Labyrinth</em> (1577).” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 55, no. 6 (November/December 2015): 4–6.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 3
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John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 08:01:42.380000
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155086
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Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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ink and color on paper
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gender unknown
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