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Posted 12 years ago
Zipcrinkle
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I am looking for more information on when these masks are from and more history about them! I got them from my great grandfather and they are wood and ceramic or clay ish stuff.
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Thanks for the info. I did that a bit an was told by one mask expert they are not noh masks so I'm not really sure if they are just art peices and not meant to wear.
Very cool masks, the Devil is the best!
I believe they are worth minimum $500 each and maybe much more!!!
hahaha this is more complicated the highbrow lady = called Aoi no Ue by Zeami, based on Leaves of Wild Ginger (Aoi), a simple monk is ordered to perform a ritual to drive out the vindictive spirit of Lady Rokuj? because she is awfully pissed and jealous. and they substantiate the jealously by means of female maneater , by means of onryo and the representation is the hannya mask, representing a female -demon. so the monk and the demon do a type mohammed ali versus Fraizier combat At the end, a Buddhist writing purify the lady’s heart, Buddha as an sort of Deus ex machina katharis and her f, ,,,,, mind of the lady is pacified and she lived happlily ever after and she became an afficionade of the Little house on the prairie serie