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Japanese

Nō theater costume (karaori), early 1800s

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

Japanese

Title

Nō theater costume (karaori)

Year

early 1800s

Medium

silk; gold leaf; paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • paper (fiber product),
  • gold leaf,
  • silk

Techniques

  • twill weave,
  • Continuous supplementary weft,
  • discontinuous supplementary weft

Dimensions

138.4 cm (54 1/2 inches) (center back length)

Type

  • Fashion,
  • Costume

Credit

Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich

Object Number

35.478

Projects & Publications

Publications

Patterns and Poetry

Nō Robes from the Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Patterns and Poetry

October 21, 1994 - January 22, 1995

Poetry in Pattern

June 9 - September 3, 1989

Japanese No Robes

October 10, 1986 - November 4, 1987

Poetry in Pattern

October 10 - November 4, 1987

A brilliant design of large chrysanthemum blossoms and miscanthus plumes beneath a gold grid reminiscent of a bamboo basket or fence.

The pattern calls to mind classical verses with chrysanthemum or miscanthus plume imagery.

hisakata no
kumo no ue nite
miru kiku wa
amatsuhoshi to zo
ayamatare keru

We were caught off guard,
we might inadvertently
think of them as stars --
those chrysanthemums growing
above the celestial clouds.

Toshiyuki no Ason Kokin Wakashu, no 269. Translation by Helen Craig McCullough, Kokin Wakashu (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985) p. 67.

hanasusuki
ware koso shita ni
omoishika
ho ni idete hito ni
musubarenikeri

You were the object,
O fair tassled miscanthus,
of my secret love,
but now ripened into plume
you are bound to another.

Fujiwara Nakahira no Ason Kokin Wakashu, no 748. Translation by Helen Craig McCullough, Kokin Wakashu (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985) p. 165.

Use

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