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Cloak
Noh costume (chôken)
Cloak
Japanese
Edo period
late 18th century
Object Place: Japan
Medium/Technique
Silk; complex gauze-weave (ro) ground with silk and gilt paper strip discontinuous supplementary patterning wefts tied down with supplementary warps in plain-weave
Dimensions
102.9 x 203.2 cm (40.5 x 80 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.3934
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionNoh theater dancing cloak (chôken) for a female role with design of pine seedlings, ivy and flower cart with maple leaves and weeping cherry in white, light blue, green, red, yellow silk and gilt paper discontinuous supplementary patterning wefts on a reddish-orange silk gauze ground.
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.