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Fragment of Noh costume


Kimono
Japanese
Edo period
18th or 19th century
Object Place: Japan

Medium/Technique Silk, gilt paper strips; twill-weave ground with discontinuous supplementary patterning wefts tied down with supplementary warps in twill-weave
Dimensions Height x width: 48 x 11 in. (121.9 x 27.9 cm)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number15.814
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsCostumes

DescriptionFragment of a Noh theater robe (karaori) with design paulownia in reddish-orange, blue, brown, tan and white silk over a woven fence lattice in gilt paper strip supplementary weft patterning on a dark brown twill-weave silk ground.
ProvenanceDenman Waldo Ross Collection; gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA on April 1, 1915