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Noh costume (chôken)
Noh costume (chôken)

Noh costume (chôken)

19th century
Object PlaceJapan
Medium/TechniqueSilk; complex gauze-weave (ro) ground with silk and gilt paper strip discontinuous supplementary patterning wefts tied down with supplementary warps in plain-weave
Dimensions114.6 x 208.9 cm (45 1/8 x 82 1/4 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number21.173
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCostumes
ProvenanceWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection; gift of William Sturgis Bigelow to the MFA on March 3, 1921
Noh costume (maiginu)
18th or 19th century
Noh costume (chôken)
late 18th or early 19th century
Noh costume (chôken)
late 18th century
Noh costume (kariginu)
18th or 19th century
Noh costume (karaori)
late 18th to early 19th century