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Nō theater costume (karaori), early 1800s

Description

Maker

Culture

Japanese

Title

Nō theater costume (karaori)

Year

early 1800s

Medium

silk; gold leaf; paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Techniques

Dimensions

149.9 cm (59 inches) (center back length)

Type

Credit

Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich

Object Number

35.480

Projects & Publications

Publications

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Poetry in Pattern

October 10 - November 4, 1987

Scattered fans of pine, bamboo and peony, cast across a pattern of weeping willow branches, recall a verse using words that have the same sounds as those for bamboo grass (sasa) and pine (matsu):

sasame ni
toki matsu ma ni zo
hi wa henuru
kokorbase o ba
hito ni mietsutsu

Though I have shown him
the true state of my feelings,
the days have slipped by
while I have waited calmly
expecting to see him soon.

Ki no Menoto, Kokin Wakashu, no 454. Translation by Helen Craig McCullough, Kokin Wakashu (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985) p. 108.

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