Nuihaku (Noh Costume)

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Textiles

Momoyama period (1568–1615), 16th century

Japan

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Nuihaku (Noh Costume)
Place: Japan (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1500–1600
Medium: Silk, plain weave; patterned with resist dyeing, impressed gold leaf, and embroidered with silk in satin, single satin, surface satin and stem stitches; couching; lined with silk, plain weave; center back panels of silk, warp-float faced 3:1 twill weave self-patterned by areas of plain weave
Dimensions: 160.6 × 133.1 cm (63 1/4 × 52 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Charles H. Worcester
Reference Number: 1928.814
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Catalogue of an Exhibition of Nō Costumes to be sold in Tokyo (Boston: Yamanaka and Co., 1927), checklist no. 1 (ill.).
Helen C. Gunsaulus, Japanese Textiles (New York: The Japan Society, 1941), 25-29, pl. 1 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 55, no. 3 (Sept. 1961): cover, 42-44 (ill.).
Mary V. Hays and Ralph E. Hays, “Nō Drama Costumes and Other Japanese Costumes.” “Five Centuries of Japanese Kimono: On the Sleeve of Fondest Dreams.” Special issue, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 18, 1 (1992): 37, cat. no. 1, pl. 1-3 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), 230-231 (ill.).
Iwao Nagasaki, Japanese Textiles in American Collections (Tokyo: Shogakukan, Inc., 1995), 160-61, no. 158.

Boston, Yamanaka and Co., Catalogue of an Exhibition of Nō Costumes, 1927, cat. and checklist.
Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, Five Centuries of Japanese Kimono: On this Sleeve of Fondest Dream, Mar. 7–June 7, 1992, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Asian Art, Dec. 19, 1997-Apr. 30, 1999.

Hirase Collection, Osaka, Japan [Gunsaulus 1941, 28]. Yamanaka and Co., Boston, by Nov. 1927 [Yomanaka 1927; invoices, Mar. 8, 1928 and Mar. 10, 1928; incoming receipt R3680, Mar. 10, 1928; former loan number 942.1928; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1928.

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