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Wooden hannya mask at the Tokyo National Museum. Edo period, 1600s or 1700s. Important Cultural Property.. The hannya (般若) is a mask used in a traditional Japanese Noh theater, representing a jealous female demon.
Noh masks signify the characters' gender, age, and social ranking, and by wearing masks the actors may portray youngsters, old men, female, or nonhuman (divine or demonic) characters. [ 23 ] : 13 Only the shite , the main actor, wears a mask in most plays, although the tsure may also wear a mask in some plays.
A cart-like demon that descends from the sky, or a cat-like demon, which carries away the corpses of evildoers. Katawaguruma A type of wanyūdō, with an anguished woman instead of a monk's head in a burning wheel. Kawaakago A river spirit that pretends to be a crying baby to lure people in for pranks that sometimes prove fatal to the victim.
Momijigari (紅葉狩) or Maple Viewing (English title) is a Japanese folk law narrative, performed as theatre in both kabuki as a shosagoto (dance-focused play) and in Noh versions. It was also the first narrative ever filmed in Japan. The Noh play was written by Kanze Nobumitsu during the Muromachi period.
Keiko I. McDonald stated that the film contained elements of the Noh theatre. She notes that the han'nya mask "is used to demonize the sinful emotions of jealousy and its associative emotions" in Noh plays, and that the differing camera angles at which the mask is filmed in Onibaba are similar to the way in which a Noh performer uses the angle ...
The Noh masks of the Konparu school are a set of 47 noh masks formerly owned by the famous Konparu family of noh actors and playwrights, now part of the collection of the Tokyo National Museum. These masks span five centuries, from the Muromachi to the Edo period (15th to 19th century), and are designated Important Cultural Properties .
Dubbed “Fall Into Love,” the season of autumn-themed movies stretches from September through October and there are a few items that are in almost all of the films.
Sango is a demon slayer who collects shards of the Shikon Jewel as payment. She is the sole survivor of an arachnid attack engineered by Naraku to destroy her village of demon slayers and acquire the jewel shards, by which her younger brother Kohaku is manipulated by Naraku. Sango unknowingly believes from Naraku that Inuyasha is responsible ...