Tengu mask in a bundle – (Tomomasa) ◄ Tidligere neste ►

Artist: Tomomasa

Dato: 1830

Museum: Bristol Museum - Art Gallery (Bristol, United Kingdom)

Teknikk: Ivory

A mask depicting a long-nosed konoha (leafy) tengu lies half- bundled in cloth.A tengu mask like this one appears in the noh play The Tengu of Kurama. The Great Tengu of Mount Kurama, disguised as a priest, teaches martial arts to the young hero Ushiwakamaru (1159-1189). Ushiwakamaru was the younger half-brother of Japan’s first Shōgun (military dictator), Minamoto no Yoritomo (1192-1199).