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Noh costume (nuihaku) with autumn flowers

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Date: mid 17th century
Medium: Silk embroidery and gold leaf on silk
Department: Asian Art
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID: 8802

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In the traditional Japanese musical drama called Noh, female characters usually wear an under robe like this one, known as a nuihaku , beneath an outer robe called a karaori. Nuihaku robes feature a combination of embroidered designs and applied gold and silver leaf. Here, gold bands represent mist floating in an autumn meadow among flowers including flame-like cockscomb, dianthus (with five fringed petals), chrysanthemums, and clumps of the shrub-like bush clover. Noh costumes such as this one created in the mid-1600s, during the Edo period, derived from robes worn by fashionable aristocratic women of the Momoyama period (1573–1603). Asia

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