能面 痩女 Noumen Yase-onnna Yase-onnna Noh Mask
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Noh mask is a wooden mask used by a “shite”, or lead actor, in Noh Theater, a Japanese traditional performing art.
Noh mask has countless varieties and the most appropriate mask is used depending on the role and scene in a play.
There are five categories of Noh masks: fierce gods, the elderly, men, women and spirits. Yase-onnna , or thin women, belongs to the spirits category.
Boney cheeks with deeply caved eye sockets and dead eyes with no expression. She is a spirit that goes back and forth between the present world and the afterlife. Yet, she is adorned with lip stick. The mask horrifically embodies a woman’s obsession with her delusional love even after her death. The mask also shows the sorrow of the woman who died while waiting for her husband to come home. Yase-onna mask articulates these conflicting feelings so well that some Noh mask makers become captivated by the Yase-onna mask and use them to study and refine their mask making techniques.
It can be said that the look of Yase-onnna mask expresses the aesthetic sense of love’s transience between men and women, passed down from ancient times.
Noh mask has countless varieties and the most appropriate mask is used depending on the role and scene in a play.
There are five categories of Noh masks: fierce gods, the elderly, men, women and spirits. Yase-onnna , or thin women, belongs to the spirits category.
Boney cheeks with deeply caved eye sockets and dead eyes with no expression. She is a spirit that goes back and forth between the present world and the afterlife. Yet, she is adorned with lip stick. The mask horrifically embodies a woman’s obsession with her delusional love even after her death. The mask also shows the sorrow of the woman who died while waiting for her husband to come home. Yase-onna mask articulates these conflicting feelings so well that some Noh mask makers become captivated by the Yase-onna mask and use them to study and refine their mask making techniques.
It can be said that the look of Yase-onnna mask expresses the aesthetic sense of love’s transience between men and women, passed down from ancient times.
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