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Your galleryHagoromo, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"
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Look at the gold phoenix rising from the maiden’s crown, then at the fan and the long red sleeve she lifts as she dances.
In the Noh play Hagoromo, a fisherman takes a heavenly maiden’s feather robe; once she has it back, she wears it to dance in thanks. Tsukioka Kōgyo, who specialized in pictures of Noh, shows the masked performer in the maiden’s role, wearing the phoenix headdress that, the V&A explains, marks her heavenly nature. Noh took its classical form in the 1300s under the actors Kan’ami and Zeami.
Color woodblock print · Approx: 37.8 × 25.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Hagoromo, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"
- Artist
- Tsukioka Kogyo Japanese, 1869-1927
- Date
- 1898/1903
- Medium
- Color woodblock print
- Dimensions
- Approx: 37.8 × 25.6 cm (14 7/8 × 10 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Henry C. Schwab
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.