Archival Note Card | Noh Drama | #29

A figure in a checkerboard skirt and red headscarf reaches for a sword mid-lunge.

This noh drama archival note card. It is paper. Kogyo Tsukioka, who worked in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is widely known for woodblock prints that recorded scenes and roles from Noh plays. A fighter in a bold black and tan checked skirt and patterned jacket draws a blade while wearing a bright red head wrap. A red-roofed hanging curtain looms behind in dark olive. A seal sits at lower left. It is 5 inches long and 6.75 high.

Dressed for a fight, and the checks are working overtime.