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Japanese

Nō theater costume (karaori), 1800-1850

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

Japanese

Title

Nō theater costume (karaori)

Year

1800-1850

Medium

silk; gold leaf; paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

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

Techniques

  • twill weave,
  • discontinuous supplementary weft

Type

  • Fashion,
  • Costume

Credit

Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich

Object Number

35.482

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

This luscious pattern of intertwining chrysanthemums and morning glories combines two motifs that each have a long tradition of poetic association.

wa ga yado no
kiku no kakine ni
oku shimo no
kiekaerite zo
koishikarikeru

My yearning is such
that I may perish of it,
melting like hoarfrost
on chrysanthemum hedges
in the garden at my house.

Ki no Tomonori, Kokin Wakashu, no 564. Translation by Helen Craig McCullough, Kokin Wakashu (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985) p. 128.

This poem uses the word for morning glory (kenigoshi) hidden within the verse:

uchitsuke ni
koshi to ya hana no
iro o mimu
oku shiratsuyu no
somuru bakari o

Shall we hastily
gaze at the blossoms' color
and pronounce it deep?
They are, after all, but dyed
by clustering white dewdrops.

Yatabe Nazane, Kokin Wakashu, no 444. Translation by Helen Craig McCullough, Kokin Wakashu (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985) p. 106.

Use

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