Description

Carved wooden Noh mask of “Kawazu”. Painted thin, black moustache and beard, as well as eyebrows and stringy hair. The skin is painted greyish-beige with dark grey teeth. It has small sunken gold and red eyes in deep sockets, and red lips. Its cheeks are hollowed. There is a dark purple cord on the back of the mask attached through small holes at the sides. There are holes carved in the eyes, mouth, and nostrils. The back of the mask is dark red-brown wood stamped with the maker’s mark. Part b is a bag made of yellowish-grey fabric, to hold part a. It is decorated with a floral pattern in pink, black, purple, and blue. The inside of the bag is white fabric with a floral pattern, written on with black ink in Japanese characters. The bag closes with white cloth ties.