Panel
1700-1800 (made)
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Place of origin |
This panel was originally part of a costume worn by an actor in a Nô performance. Nô is a traditional Japanese dance drama with a poetic text that is sung to the accompaniment of three drums and a flute. All the performers are male, and the actor in the leading role wears a mask. The costumes are heavy and stiff. Their emphatic designs suit the slow, deliberate movements of a Nô performance, which takes place on a virtually bare stage. This panel would have been part of a costume known as a‘karaori’; it would have been worn by an actor playing a female role. The pattern of chrysathemums, pine shoots, bellflowers and bushclover has been woven with long floating wefts that look almost like embroidery.
Object details
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Materials and techniques | Brocaded silk, backed with silk |
Brief description | Panel of brocaded silk, Kyoto, Japan. 1700-1800 |
Physical description | Panel of silk, made from several rectangular panels of brocaded silks of various sizes. The pattern, which consists of a close arrangement of floral motifs (including pine shotts, chrysanthemums, bush clover and bellflowers), is the same on each panel, but two different colour schemes are used. The ground of one group is greeen shaded to a rust colour and the other is green shaded to cream. The panel is brocaded in blues, greens, white, orange and mauve and has some gold thread. It is backed with purple silk. |
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Credit line | Given by the Misses Alexander through Art Fund |
Object history | From a Nô costume. |
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Summary | This panel was originally part of a costume worn by an actor in a Nô performance. Nô is a traditional Japanese dance drama with a poetic text that is sung to the accompaniment of three drums and a flute. All the performers are male, and the actor in the leading role wears a mask. The costumes are heavy and stiff. Their emphatic designs suit the slow, deliberate movements of a Nô performance, which takes place on a virtually bare stage. This panel would have been part of a costume known as a‘karaori’; it would have been worn by an actor playing a female role. The pattern of chrysathemums, pine shoots, bellflowers and bushclover has been woven with long floating wefts that look almost like embroidery. |
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Accession number | T.46-1955 |
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Record created | December 20, 2005 |
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