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322 Hannya 323 Namanari
polychromed wood polychromed wood
21.0 x 17.3 (8 V 4 x 6 3/ 4) 21.4 X 14.0 (8 3/8 X 5 /z)
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Muromachi period, loth century Edo period, i8th century
Eisei Bunko, Tokyo Eisei Bunko, Tokyo
Important Art Object
Although the horns are not as long or
The Hannya mask expresses the violent sharp and the expression not as fierce as
anger and distress of a woman whose love the Hannya mask (cat. 322), Namanari, ex-
and trust have been betrayed, turning her presses with great intensity a woman
into a raging, revengeful female demon. crazed with jealousy. As in the Hannya
The two horns protruding from disorderly mask, her complexion is dark, her eyes and
hair evince diabolic malevolence, and the teeth metallic. (Most frightening is a third
upper lip, tense and pointed in the center type of female demon mask known as Ja.)
like a snake's, and the glinting of the metal Namanari is used in the second half of
eyes and teeth effectively add to her men- Kanawa, a play about a woman who prays
ace. This mask is attributed to the monk to become a demon in order to carry out
Hannya, who is said to have lived in Nara her revenge against a husband who de-
during the Muromachi period and to have serted her for another. On the back of this
originated this type of mask. MK mask is the carver's name, Déme Moto-
masa, about whom nothing is known. MK

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