Flowers and Grasses, by Tsubaki Chinzan, 1841
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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

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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.