Skip to main content

Visit Main Menu Block

  • Hours & Admission
  • Accessibility & Amenities
  • Tours & Group Visits
  • Visitor Guidelines

Exhibitions and Events Main Menu Block

  • Exhibitions
  • Events

Art and Design Main Menu Block

  • Collection
  • Collection Research
  • Past Exhibitions

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Give
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum

Image

RISDM 35-468 v_01.tif
RISDM 35-468 v_04.tif
RISDM 35-468 v_03.tif
RISDM 35-468 v_02.tif
RISDM 35-468.tif
RISDM 35-468.tif
Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 / 6 Next
  • RISDM 35-468 v_01.tif
  • RISDM 35-468 v_04.tif
  • RISDM 35-468 v_03.tif
  • RISDM 35-468 v_02.tif
  • RISDM 35-468.tif
  • RISDM 35-468.tif

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Nō theater costume (nuihaku)

Description

Maker

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Culture

Japanese

Title

Nō theater costume (nuihaku)

Year

1750-1800

Medium

  • silk,
  • gold leaf

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Silk,
  • gold leaf

Materials

silk, gold leaf

Dimensions

152.4 cm (60 inches) (center back length)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich

Object Number

35.468

Type

  • Costume

Projects & Publications

Publications

  • Books

Lucy T. Aldrich Collection of Japanese Noh Drama Costumes and Priest Robes

Read Online ›
Pub_ID 1461 Patterns and Poetry v_01.jpg
  • Books

Patterns and Poetry: Nō Robes from the Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection

No robes from the Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. A beautiful and informative publication on the RISD Museum's collection of costumes for the Japanese No theater. This collection, arguably the finest in the United States, was assembled largely on the spot in Japan during the 1920's by Rhode Islander Lucy Truman Aldrich, sister-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The 47 robes came to the Museum by gift and bequest from Miss Aldrich herself and represent all categories of No costume. Four essays document the history of the collection, including Miss Aldrich's encounter with Chinese bandits; poetic allusion in the imagery of the robes; the traditional methods of making No robes; and the evolution of No costume over 650 years. Individual entries with color illustrations discuss each of the 47 objects.

Susan Anderson Hay, Curator of Costumes and Textiles, RISD Museum of Art Monica Bethe, Independent Scholar, Japan Helen M. Nagata, former Curator of Asian Art, RISD Museum of Art Iwao Nagasaki, Curator and Scholar at the National Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Read Online ›

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Patterns and Poetry
Noh Robes from the Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection
Oct 21, 1994 – Jan 22, 1995
The Art of the Kimono
Apr 17, 1992 – Jul 11, 1992
Poetry in Pattern
Selections from the Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection of Noh Costumes
Jun 09, 1989 – Sep 03, 1989
Poetry in Pattern
Selections from the Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection of Noh Costumes
Oct 10, 1987 – Nov 04, 1987

Label copy

Chrysanthemum sprays and paulownia motifs are here embroidered on a ground of tortoise-shell and plum patternin gold applique wiht a crackled ice and plum blossom pattern in the weave.

The design combines motifs associated with the Heian period (784-1191) and calls to midn classical verses using chrysanthemum imagery.

oto ni nomi

kiku no shiratsuyu

yoru wa okite

hiru wa omoi ni

aezu kenubeshi

Though I but know you

through others, love has made me

like chrysanthemum dew,

rising by night and by day

fading into nothingness.

Monk Sosei, Kokin Wakashu, no 470. Translation by Helen Craig McCullough, Kokin Wakashu (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985) p. 111.

Use & Feedback

Image use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use.

This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Unknown Maker, Japanese
Nō theater costume (nuihaku), 1750-1800
silk; gold leaf
152.4 cm (60 inches) (center back length)
Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich 35.468

To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

Feedback

We view our online collection as a living documents, and our records are frequently revised and enhanced. If you have additional information or have spotted an error, please send feedback to curatorial@risd.edu.

RISD Museum

  •  Facebook
  •  Twitter
  •  Instagram
  •  Vimeo
  •  Pinterest
  •  SoundCloud

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Give
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum

Footer Secondary

  • Image Request
  • Press Office
  • Rent the Museum
  • Terms of Use