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| Keywords: Matsuke Heikichi - Nogaku zue - Walters 95236.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Daikokuya Matsuki Heikichi en Okina is not a play but a collective title for a performance of three dances that came to be incorporated into the repertory of the No theater Individually the three dances are known by the names of the characters who dance them Okina Senzai and Sambaso Originating in ancient folk beliefs and prayers for a bountiful harvest the dances came to be performed at special No programs especially celebrating the New Year the opening of a new theater or the birthday of a revered actor Okina wears the bearded white mask of a venerable old man His dance is measured and stately with symbolic movements including the slow folding and unfolding of his fan and furling and unfurling of his kimono sleeves 1898 Meiji pigments mulberry paper cm 25 37 2 accession number 95 236 1876 Mr and Mrs C R Snell Jr Maryland Line date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of Mr and Mrs C R Snell Jr 1989 Signature Kogyo place of origin Japan Walters Art Museum license PD-old-auto 1927 2D Japanese prints in the Walters Art Museum Historic samurai prints Daikokuya Matsuki Heikichi Kōgyo Tsukioka Okina Nō performance | ||||
