Atsuita karaori (Noh Costume)

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

Edo period (1615–1868), 1775/1800

Japan

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Atsuita karaori (Noh Costume)
Date: Made 1775–1800
Medium: Silk, twill weave; gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips; lined with silk, plain weave
Dimensions: 168.2 × 146.3 cm (66 1/4 × 57 5/8 in.) Shoulder to hem length: 56.3 cm (22 1/4 in.) Sleeve length: 103.2 cm (40 5/8 in.) Width at hem: 75.7 cm (29 3/4 in.) Width of sleeve panel: 38.3 cm (15 1/8 in.) Width of center front panel hem overlap: 21.7 cm (8 1/2 in.) Width of collar band: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Natalie Gookin in memory of Frederick W. Gookin
Reference Number: 1936.149
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Mary V. and Ralph E Hays. “No Drama Costumes and Other Japanese Costumes in The Art Institute of Chicago.” Museum Studies 18, 1 (1992), p. 38, no. 7.
Iwao Nagasaki. Japanese Textile in American Collections (Tokyo: Shogakukan, Inc., 1995), p. 155, no. 153.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Bulletin XXX (Nov. 1936) p. 81
AIC quarterly September 1961, vol. 55, no. 3, p. 41 (detail) p. 60, illus.

Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, Five Centuries of Japanese Kimono, Mar. 4–June 7, 1992.
Art Institute of Chicago, Ando Gallery, Department of Asian Art, April 30- Aug. 11, 1998.
Art Institute of Chicago, Ando Gallery, Department of Asian Art, Oct. 28, 2003- Jan. 12, 2004.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Asian Art, Gallery 108, Oct. 22, 2013-Jan. 17, 2014.

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