Archival Note Cards | Noh Drama | Boxed Set #2

A woman in patterned robes waits beneath a red lattice canopy, patient as a theater curtain.

This boxed set of archival note cards on Noh drama, Black Hat 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 vertical print shows a robed figure standing in a bright red arched framework, with calligraphy at upper right. At lower left a masked figure in a dark hat looks out, beside a grid of small cards under the title Noh Drama. It is 5 inches long and 7 high.

Those red bars are doing a lot of quiet drama.