Archival Note Card | Noh Drama | #36

A pale spiderweb stretches over a dark figure in an embroidered robe.

This is a noh drama archival note card. It is paper. Fans, swords, robes and headdresses carry much of the meaning in Noh, where a single carefully held prop can stand in for a whole action. A large silver web spreads across a smoky blue ground, with a crouching figure in a dark patterned robe half hidden behind it. A few leaves appear at the top, with small characters at upper left. It is 5 inches long and 6.75 high.

Delicate threads, and the figure behind them is not impressed.