KOCHÔ
(胡蝶)

                
[Spirit of a Butterfly] Chô no Sei (蝶の精神)

Play: Kochô (胡蝶)
Print Date: 05/10/99
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Picture of Noh Plays] Nôgaku Zue (能楽図絵) [#134]
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh

 

                
[Spirit of a Butterfly] Chô no Sei (蝶の精神)
 
[Traveling Priest] Tabisô (旅僧)

Play: Kocho (胡蝶)
Print Date: 12/25/25
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [A Great Mirror of Nô Pictures] Nôga Taikan (能画大鑑), Vol. 3, #8
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
 
 

                   
[Spirit of a Butterfly] Chô no Sei (蝶の精神)
 
Play: Kochô (胡蝶)
Print Date: 06/1938
Artist: Matsuno Sôfû (松野奏風)
Series: [Fifty Noh Figures in Color]
Nô Sugata Gojyû Irodori (能姿五十彩) No. 28
Image courtesy of the Art Resource Center, Ritsumeikan University
 
 
 

Japanese Opera
Ex Libris Giovanni & Laura
 
Play: Kochô （胡蝶）
Print Date: 07/2013
Artist: Hamanishi Katsunori (浜西勝則)
Medium: Mezzotint with gold leaf
Personal Collection (#68/70)

                 

Play: Kochô (胡蝶)
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yamaguchi Ryôshû (山口蓼洲)
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #88
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
Note: Kanze school. Tsukurimono: Marudai (round frame) supporting an artificial plum tree. Kanmuri:
Crown with a headdress of a butterfly. Shikishi: Depicts the scene of plum trees blooming at miyako
ômiya-zukuri (a shrine building in Kyoto).
 
 

                 

Play: Kochô (胡蝶)
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yamaguchi Ryôshû (山口蓼洲)
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #89
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
Note: Kongô school. Tsukurimono is the same as in Kochō 1. In Kongô school, an ornament of
butterfly like the one depicted in the print is attached to the shoulder of Nochi-shite. Kanmuri: Crown
with a headdress of natane (rape blossom). Shikishi: Depicts plum blossoms.