Noh Costume (Mizugoromo)

Japan

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The mizugoromo (literally, "water garment") is a type of three-quarter-length overgarment made specifically for the Noh stage, where it is worn for many types of roles: male and female, old and young, priest and layman. This mizugoromo, strikingly modern in appearance, is made of an intentionally distressed plain-weave cloth, termed yore in Japanese. Yore, a very open textile with displaced wefts that are not perpendicular to the warps, gives a ragged or threadbare impression to the garment. For this reason, the yore mizugoromo is frequently worn for roles of suffering ghosts or the destitute.

Noh Costume (Mizugoromo), Plain-weave bast fiber, ramie warp and hemp weft, Japan

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Noh Costume (Mizugoromo), Plain-weave bast fiber, ramie warp and hemp weft, Japan
Noh Costume (Mizugoromo), Plain-weave bast fiber, ramie warp and hemp weft, Japan
Noh Costume (Mizugoromo), Plain-weave bast fiber, ramie warp and hemp weft, Japan
Noh Costume (Mizugoromo), Plain-weave bast fiber, ramie warp and hemp weft, Japan
Noh Costume (Mizugoromo), Plain-weave bast fiber, ramie warp and hemp weft, Japan
Noh Costume (Mizugoromo), Plain-weave bast fiber, ramie warp and hemp weft, Japan
Noh Costume (Mizugoromo), Plain-weave bast fiber, ramie warp and hemp weft, Japan
Noh Costume (Mizugoromo), Plain-weave bast fiber, ramie warp and hemp weft, Japan

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