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Japanese

Nō theater costume (nuihaku), 1750-1800

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

Japanese

Title

Nō theater costume (nuihaku)

Year

1750-1800

Medium

silk; gold leaf

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • silk,
  • gold leaf

Dimensions

152.4 cm (60 inches) (center back length)

Type

  • Fashion,
  • Costume

Credit

Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich

Object Number

35.468

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

The Art of the Kimono

April 17 - July 11, 1992

Poetry in Pattern

June 9 - September 3, 1989

Poetry in Pattern

October 10 - November 4, 1987

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.

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