Cleveland Museum of Art

Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Otsu-e (Otsu-e)

Kamisaka SekkaLinkedCulture matchlcp-316c54189999

Date: 1909
Medium: ink and color on paper
Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
Department: Japanese Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 155094

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A group of people in traditional attire is depicted in a dynamic pose, seemingly engaged in a performance or ritual.

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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.

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Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
Provenance: ?–1989: (Yanagi Fine Art Shop, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1989–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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