Nō Costume (Mizugoromo) | c. mid 19th Century ・・・ The mizugoromo (literally, "water garment") is a type of three-quarter-length overgarment made specifically for the Nō stage, where it is worn for many types of roles: male and female, old and young, priest and layman. This mizugoromo, strikingly modern in appearance, is made of an intentionally distressed plain-weave cloth, termed yore in Japanese. Yore, a very open textile with displaced wefts that are not perpendicular to the warps, gives a ragged or threadbare impression to the garment. For this reason, the yore mizugoromo is frequently worn for roles of suffering ghosts or the destitute. ・・・ #Nō #noh #costume #japan #mizugoromo #blue #water #fashion #vintage #ramie #theater #能 #metmuseum https://www.instagram.com/p/BzLeNS9ATlC/?igshid=li91kzzocz0r