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Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Dancing (Odori) by Kamisaka Sekka — VisualArtsDB

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Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Dancing (Odori)

Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Dancing (Odori)

Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Dancing (Odori)

1909

Medium: ink and color on paper
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art

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Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)

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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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