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Outer Noh robe of grape vines with autumn grasses https://collections.artsmia.org/art/8803/
Karaori (Outer Noh robe), brocade of grape vines with autumn grasses and gold bamboo lattice motif on blue-grey twill weave silk. The design is not created through embroidery as it appears to be, but with the Karaori brocade technique of floating the weft threads of glossed silk to create the various floral and lattice patterns. This allowed for only a few centimeters of fabric to be woven per day, making such robes extremely rare and expensive works of art. This garment has been used in only a few recorded performances since its manufacture accounting for its exceptionally fine condition. Richly brocaded garments known as karaori, literally "Chinese weaving," are reserved for women's roles in Japanese Nō dramas. Although they resemble embroidery, they are actually woven by a difficult technique of floating weft threads of glossed silk to form a dense, colorful pattern against a solid ground. In this case, grape vines and autumn grasses intertwine with a bamboo lattice pattern. The difficult and time-consuming nature of karaori weaving made these garments the rarest and most expensive of all.
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Karaori with hollyhock and willow motifs, Japan, 1700-1800, collection Okura Museum of Art.

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October 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Noh Costume (Karaori)

18th Century

Japan

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
October 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Noh Theater Robe, Atsuita Karaori type, Japan, 18th century. Silk, metallic thread, paper with gold, 131.9 × 127 cm. Detroit Institute of Arts, 1990.33.
May 3, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Noh Costume (Karaori) with Cypress Fans and Moonflower (Yūgao) Blossoms - #painting#art#artist#oilpainting#paint#museum#artgallery#traditionalart#blueskyart
January 4, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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December 30, 2024 at 7:49 AM
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Noh costume (nuihaku) with autumn flowers https://collections.artsmia.org/art/8802/
In the traditional Japanese musical drama called Noh, female characters usually wear an under robe like this one, known as a nuihaku, beneath an outer robe called a karaori. Nuihaku robes feature a combination of embroidered designs and applied gold and silver leaf. Here, gold bands represent mist floating in an autumn meadow among flowers including flame-like cockscomb, dianthus (with five fringed petals), chrysanthemums, and clumps of the shrub-like bush clover. Noh costumes such as this one created in the mid-1600s, during the Edo period, derived from robes worn by fashionable aristocratic women of the Momoyama period (1573–1603).
December 15, 2024 at 8:59 AM
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Noh theatre costume. First half 19th century, Japan. “
Noh theater robe (karaori) for female role with alternating color blocks of tan and blue delineated by ikat-dyed warp threads
MFA (William Sturgis Bigelow Collection)
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November 16, 2024 at 8:35 AM
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Noh costume (nuihaku) with floral motifs https://collections.artsmia.org/art/105524/
gold ground with metallic gold grid design; embroidered leaves and flowers in green, orange, royal blue, lavender, white and deep purple Nuihaku robes combine embroidered designs and applied gold or silver leaf and are used as costumes in the Japanese musical drama called Noh. Usually worn by male actors playing female roles, they serve as inner garments beneath an outer robe called a karaori. This example features a ground of gold leaf applied to the silk surface to form a geometric pattern, on top of which are embroidered clusters of floral motifs in green, white, orange, purple, and blue silk threads. Since these types of robes are often worn turned down at the waist and then covered with a sash, the designer of this robe left this area free of designs, in a style known as koshi-ake, which literally means “blank waist.”
October 9, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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Atsuita karaori (Noh Costume), by null, 1801–1825
Place: Japan
Medium: Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, warp-float faced 2:1 'Z' twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts; lined with silk, plain weave; dyed with safflower, beni
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/796
A work made of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, warp-float faced 2:1 'z' twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts; lined with silk, plain weave; dyed with safflower, beni.
July 24, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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Karaori (Noh Costume), Edo period (1615-1868), 1775/1825.
April 7, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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Robe de théatre Nô, style Karaori, 18ème siècle.
Robe de théatre Nô, style Karaori, 18ème siècle.
December 20, 2023 at 9:49 PM