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Flowers and Grasses
Tsubaki Chinzan (Japanese, 1801–1854)
1841
- Medium
- folding-album with six leaves of paintings; preface in ink on paper; paintings in ink and color on silk
- Classification
- Bound Volume
- Dimensions
- Album, closed: 28.9 x 19.6 cm (11 3/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Cornelia Blakemore Warner Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This album contains six small paintings, each of which takes a different plant as its subject. The paintings include depictions of pomegranates, as well as flowering narcissus and orchid.