The nuihaku is a pliant full-length costume for the Noh theater usually worn for the roles of women or young men. The name nuihaku is a compound word made up of the two textile techniques seen in the robes: embroidery (nui) and application of gold leaf (haku).Here, the embroidered design consists of scattered sprays of ripe millet and nandina plants with their characteristic red berries. The gold leaf has been applied in a design of alternating blocks of pine branches (the view from the end of a branch) and zither (koto) bridges.
