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Unknown Artist
- Title
- 'Maiginu' noh robe
- Other titles:
- Paulownia decorated noh robe
- Place of origin
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Japan
- Year
- early 19th century
- Media category
- Textile
- Materials used
- gauze weave, silk and gilt paper strips
- Dimensions
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143.0 x 216.0cm
- Credit
- Purchased 2004
- Accession number
- 176.2004
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This beautiful garment is a Noh theatre costume worn as an outer robe for a female role. This form of robe ('maigunu'), together with the full-length 'karaori', of which we acquired a superb example in 2002 [Acc.no. 321.2002], is considered 'the flower of Noh costumes'. Typically the garment is constructed of unlined diaphanous gauze-weave silk ('ro'), in this case coloured a beautifully soft green. The sparsely placed paulownia leaves, luxuriously rendered in gold, epitomise the Japanese aesthetic of subtle elegance.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, June 2004.
- Bibliography (2)
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Masterpieces of noh costume, Tokyo, 1990, 27. pl. 19 (colour illus.)
Art Gallery of New South Wales Annual Report 2004 2004, 2004, 26 (colour illus.).
