Archival Note Cards | Noh Drama | Boxed Set #3

A swordsman bends mid-stride in dark robes, scattering cards like a showman.

This boxed set of archival note cards on Noh drama, Fan Dance set. It is archival paper. Noh is a classical Japanese theater that took shape in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, combining masks, chant, music and slow, deliberate movement. A horizontal print in a yellow-toned-edged frame shows a figure in layered black and red costume bending forward, a fan raised behind. A shield-shaped panel and small framed cards line the lower edge, with Noh Drama lettered in cream. It is 7 inches long, 1 deep and 5 high.

Costume budgets were clearly not a concern here.