Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Fulling Silk (Uchiginu)

Description

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.

Provenance

(Yanagi Fine Art Shop, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?–1989); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1989–)

Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Fulling Silk (Uchiginu)

Kamisaka Sekka

1909

Accession Number

1989.85.15

Medium

ink and color on paper

Dimensions

N/A

Classification

Drawing

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

John L. Severance Fund