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Plum Branch and Full Moon
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Kamisaka Sekka

Plum Branch and Full Moon

1905-1915

Scroll

Kamisaka Sekka

Plum Branch and Full Moon

1905-1915

Physical Qualities Ink and color on silk; mounted as a hanging scroll, 67 5/16 × 12 1/16 in. (171 × 30.6 cm.); 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm.)
Credit Line Straton Family Fund
Object Number 2018.41
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2018; Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art, Kyoto
"Kamisaka Sekka: Rimpa Master, Pioneer of Modern Design," The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, August 30-October 3, 2003; circulated to Sakura City Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, through August 1, 2004.
Frances Klapthor, "The Way of Nature: Art from Japan, China, and Korea," Baltimore Museum of Art, September 21, 2025-March 1, 2026
Donald A. Wood, ed., "Kamisaka Sekka: Rimpa Master, Pioneer of Modern Design," Kyoto/Birmingham, Ala./Tokyo: The National Museum of Modern Art/Birmingham Museum of Art/ Asahi Shimbun, 2003, no. 104, p. 146, ill.
Yoshirō Sakakibara, "Kamisaka sekka no sekai : rinpa kara modan dezain eno kakehashi hakken," Tōkyō : Heibonsha, 2008, p 38.

Artist

Kamisaka Sekka

Japanese, 1866-1942

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