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Kamisaka Sekka

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

1909
ink and color on paper

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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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