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One of 200 prints issued as part of the series Nōga taikan (Encyclopedia of Noh Plays), depicting a scene from the play Makiginu by an unknown playwright.

The Play - Makiginu

Source: A Guide to No, P.G. O'Neill, Hinoki Shoten, 1929, p. 98.

A Court official announces that he has been charged with the task of collecting a thousand rolls of silk to be sent from the various provinces to the Kumano Shrines, in accordance with a dream the Emperor has had.  The man bringing the silk from the capital, however, has stopped on the way to offer up a poem at the shrine of the god Otonashi no Tenjin, and arrives late.  The official therefore orders him to be bound and punished, but the god takes possession of a priestess to save the man in gratitude for his offering.   Speaking through the mouth of the priestess, the god then recites some prayers at the request of the official and finally dances.

Print Details

IHL Catalog	#335
Title	Makiginu 巻絹 (Rolls of Silk )
Series	Nōga taikan 能画大鑑 (Encyclopedia of Noh Plays or A Great Mirror of Noh Pictures or A Great Collection of Noh Pictures)
Artist	Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869-1927)
Signature	Kōgyo
Seal	Kōgyo seal
Date	1925-1930
Edition	unknown
Publisher	Seibi Shoten, Tokyo
Carver	Uchida Eikichi
Printer	Yoshida Takesaburō
Impression	excellent
Colors	excellent
Condition	excellent - slight wrinkling; not backed
Genre	ukiyo-e
Miscellaneous
Format	oban yoko-e
H x W Paper	10 x 14 3/8 in. (25.4 x 36.5 cm)
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