Kyogen mask (comic mask)

The word Kyogen means a play that is a farce, or a joke. In the 15th
century, the Noh play Nohgaku was called Sarugaku or the Monkey play.
Kyogen was originally a humorous performance of mimicking art, but in the Edo dynasty (1603 - 1867), the Tokugawa shogun specified this as Shikiraku, which means the ceremony was for the use of the samurai.
Then it became more refined and a dignified form of art.
These masks are realistic representations of the fox and the monkey. In addition there is the mosquito, which cannot be embodied, so the Kyogen use Usubuki mask as the spirit of the mosquito.


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Kyogen Mak Mask name Kyogen Mak Mask name
Ebisu Buaku-2
Daikoku Azuki-buaku
Daikoku2 Daikoku3
Buaku Oni-buaku
Ao-buaku Fukunokami
Ao-buaku2 Tobi
Usobuki Saru(moneky)
Oto Hakuko-7
Otafuku Hakuko-8
Tengu Kistune-9
Tengu/hair Hahatenko
Hakuko(White Fox) Yoshiwara-kitsune
Hakuko2 Ryuko
Jiko(Ground Fox) Noborihige
Kitsune-4 Kozukurino-mikoto
Tenko Kentoku
Kinko Taka
Kozaru(Child monky)

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