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Under Yoshimitsu the Zen principles of restraint, understatement, economy of movement and frugality of expression became incorporated into the performance. By the early seventeenth century Nō had become an even more austere and formalised drama reserved almost exclusively for the Tokugawa family, the ruling military elite.\r\n\r\nThe term atsuita originally referred to luxury fabrics with long floating wefts of silk with gold (kinran) or silver (ginran) thread. These were imported from China as bolts rolled around thick wooden boards (atsu-ita). Around the fourteenth century warlords presented these robes to Nō actors and the costume made from such fabric became known as atsuita. The atsuita was worn under kariginu robes by male actors in the roles of warlords, gods or demons. 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