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Nō or Kyōgen theater costume (Noshime-type)
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Nō or Kyōgen theater costume (Noshime-type)

CultureJapanese
Date1800-1849
MediumKasuri (ikat) weave silk
DimensionsOverall: 59 × 61 inches (149.86 × 154.94 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-142/15
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DescriptionNoshime No or Kyogen theater costume with blue and white plaid pattern.Exhibition History

Exhibition of Chinese and Japanese Textiles, Toledo Museum, Toledo, OH, November, 1933, No.116

Japanese art of the Edo Period, Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, MO, March 16- April 21, 1958; City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, May 13-June 30, 1958, no. 116.

Waning Moon Rising Sun, Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, Houston, TX, Oct. 16- Nov. 22, 1959, no. 2.
Provenance

Yamanaka & Co., New York, by 1932;

Purchased from Yamakana & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
Published References

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 218 (repro.).     

Toledo Museum of Art, Exhibition of Chinese and Japanese Textiles, exh. cat. (Toledo: 1933), no. 116 (repro.)

William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, City Art Museum of St Louis, Japanese Art of the Edo Period, exh. cat. (Kansas City: The Gallery, 1958), no. 116, p.21 (repro.).

Museum of Fine arts of Houston, Waning Moon Rising Sun, exh. cat. (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, 1959), no. 2, p.21 (repro.).
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