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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.350
People
Kamisaka Sekka 神坂雪佳, Japanese (Kyoto 1866 - 1942)
Published by Unsōdō 芸艸堂
Title
Momoyogusa (Flowers of a Hundred Worlds)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
book
Date
1909–10
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Meiji era, 1868-1912
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/340547

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock-printed book (3 vols.); ink, color, and metallic pigments on paper
Dimensions
opened max.: W. 44.6 cm (17 9/16 in.)
each volume closed: H. 30.2 x W. 22.3 x D. 2.6 cm (11 7/8 x 8 3/4 x 1 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Yanagi Shigehiko, Kyoto. [Robert G. Sawers, London (1994)], sold; to Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg, Bethesda, MD (1994-2018), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.350
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary
Printed book in three volumes

Publication History

  • Rachel Saunders and Yukio Lippit, Painting Edo: Selections from the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, 2020), p. 95, fig. 83
  • Rachel Saunders, ed., Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 193-194, cat. 193

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

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