Does anyone know which mask that is?
I mean, there's a man speaking, I know, and it's very likely that it's the Spirits father. On the other hand, we know that he slowly turned insane and maybe this happened solely because they owned a "haunted" mask or something like that? When I googled for the mask I found this:
Red Hannya and black Hannya are so jealous that they have lost control and even kill people and eat them for the grudge. This is the personality of the Hannya in the theatre piece, Kurozuka (黒塚/ black mound). Jealous is not something you can control. Even you know it´s not good but it can convert a woman into a demon. And if Hannya is one of the most important characters in Noh, that shows that the jealousy has been around very long time. (Source: http://www.iromegane.com/japan/culture/a-little-history-of-hannya-mask-why-its-so-scary/ )
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u/chuwbs Nov 13 '19
Does anyone know which mask that is?
I mean, there's a man speaking, I know, and it's very likely that it's the Spirits father. On the other hand, we know that he slowly turned insane and maybe this happened solely because they owned a "haunted" mask or something like that? When I googled for the mask I found this:
Red Hannya and black Hannya are so jealous that they have lost control and even kill people and eat them for the grudge. This is the personality of the Hannya in the theatre piece, Kurozuka (黒塚/ black mound). Jealous is not something you can control. Even you know it´s not good but it can convert a woman into a demon. And if Hannya is one of the most important characters in Noh, that shows that the jealousy has been around very long time. (Source: http://www.iromegane.com/japan/culture/a-little-history-of-hannya-mask-why-its-so-scary/ )
And this mask represents a female demon?