Sprig of Cinnamon – O'Tama Kiyohara – Palazzo dei Normanni, Palermo

A leafy sprig of the cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum verum) with its veined, pale green leaves is painted in watercolour. It is one of the works of the Japanese painter O'Tama Kiyohara (1861–1939), wife of the Palermo sculptor Vincenzo Ragusa, shown at the Royal Palace in 2020 from the Palermo museum named after the couple.