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Unknown Maker, Japanese

Nō Theater Costume (Nuihaku)
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Maker

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Culture

Japanese

Title

Nō Theater Costume (Nuihaku)

Year

ca. 1800–1850

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

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

Exhibition History

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.

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Unknown Maker, Japanese
Nō Theater Costume (Nuihaku), ca. 1800–1850
Silk satin weave with stenciled gold leaf and silk-floss embroidery (satin stitch, stem stitch, couching, overlay)
152.4 cm (60 inches) (center back length)
Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich 35.468

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