Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Chrysanthemum Boy (Kikujidō)

Kamisaka Sekka (Japanese, 1866–1942)

1909

Medium
ink and color on paper
Classification
Drawing
Culture
Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
Credit line
John L. Severance Fund
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

About this work

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.