Kon'nichiwa dear customers welcome to this wonderful ebay auction for this Kon'nichiwa dear customers welcome to this wonderful ebay auction for this JAPANESE THEATRE MASK NOH ONI MASK NAMANARI HAND CARVED WOOD DANCE MASK USED IN KANAWA TRADITIONAL PLAY
Dimensions;
Length 230mm, width 160mm, depth 56mm.
there is a very faint mark across the brow and a paint chip off the top of the horn hard to notice appears like new .
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Oni (鬼) are a kind of yokai from Japanese folklore, variously translated as demons, devils, ogres or trolls. They are popular characters in Japanese Art, Literature and Theatre
Depictions of oni vary widely but usually portray them as
hideous, gigantic ogre-like creatures with sharp claws, wild hair, and two long
horns growing from their heads.They are humanoid for the most part, but
occasionally, they are shown with unnatural features such as odd numbers of
eyes or extra fingers and toes.Their skin may be any number of colors, but red
and blue are particularly common.
They are often depicted wearing tiger-skin loincloths and
carrying iron clubs, called kanabo (金棒). This image leads to the
expression "oni with an iron club"(鬼に金棒 oni-ni-kanabō), that
is, to be invincible or undefeatable. It can also be used in the sense of
"strong beyond strong", or having one's natural quality enhanced or
supplemented by the use of some tool