Noh costume (atsuita)
19th century
Object PlaceJapan
Medium/TechniqueSilk; 5/1 twill ground, ikat-dyed (kasuri) with discontinuous and continuous silk supplementary patterning wefts tied in 1/2 twill order (karaori)
DimensionsOverall: 150.5 x 134.6 cm (59 1/4 CB x 53 in.)
Other (Collar): 15.2cm (6in.)
Exhibition height = 62 1/4
Other (Collar): 15.2cm (6in.)
Exhibition height = 62 1/4
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection and Julia Bradford Huntington James Fund
Accession number15.1172
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCostumes
Collections
ProvenanceHirase Collection. By 1915, Yamanaka & Co., New York; 1915, sold by Yamanaka to the MFA, through William Sturgis Bigelow, Boston, [see note 1] for $100 [see note 2]. (Accession date: October 7, 1915)
NOTES:
[1] Bigelow arranged the transaction and transport of the costumes on behalf of the MFA.
[2] No. 87 on Yamanaka & Co. object list. Costumes from the Hirase Collection (accession no. 15.1165 - 15.1178) were purchased from Yamanaka & Co. individually, along with part of Yamanaka's "Complete Set" of Noh Isho and Men dresses (accession no. 15.1146 - 15.1164), which were sold as a group for $7500. The total sale was $9,969.25.
NOTES:
[1] Bigelow arranged the transaction and transport of the costumes on behalf of the MFA.
[2] No. 87 on Yamanaka & Co. object list. Costumes from the Hirase Collection (accession no. 15.1165 - 15.1178) were purchased from Yamanaka & Co. individually, along with part of Yamanaka's "Complete Set" of Noh Isho and Men dresses (accession no. 15.1146 - 15.1164), which were sold as a group for $7500. The total sale was $9,969.25.
18th century
mid-19th century
19th century
19th century
late 18th to first half of 19th century
latter half of the 19th to early 20th century
late 18th or 19th century
18th century
19th century
18th century (overpainted in late 19th)
probably 1820–30
1835–45