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Archaeological masks have been found from early Paleo-Eskimo and from early Dorset culture period. [2] It is believed that these masks served several functions, including being in rituals representing animals in personalized form; [14] being used by shaman (medicine man or angakkuq) in ceremonies relating to spirits (as in the case of a wooden mask from southwestern Alaska); [15] it is also ...
A Gyōdō mask from the Heian period at the Guimet Museum. Surviving masks include a pair of masks dating from 1086 and 1334 at Tōdai-ji (); [5] a set of ten masks dating from 1138 for use in the shōryō-e (聖霊会) ceremonies at Hōryū-ji (); [6] thirteen Heian-period masks from Mitsuki Hachimangū (御調八幡宮) (); [7] a Kamakura-period mask of Tamonten at the Tokyo National Museum ...
In some parts of north eastern Japan, Hyottoko is regarded as the god of fire. There is a well known folk story in the form of music, izumoyasugibushi (出雲安来節) where a fisherman dances with a bamboo basket, having the same visual expression as the mask of Hyottoko. During this dance, a person puts five yen coins on their nose.
Men-yoroi (面鎧), also called menpō (面頬) or mengu (面具), [1] [2] [3] are various types of facial armour that were worn by the samurai class and their retainers in feudal Japan. These include the sōmen , menpō , hanbō or hanpō , and happuri .
Kyoto geisha Toshimana holding a Nōh mask, wearing full make-up and a katsura (wig). Oshiroi (白粉) is a powder foundation traditionally used by kabuki actors, geisha and their apprentices. The word is written with kanji meaning "white powder", and is pronounced as the word for white (shiroi) with the honorific prefix o-.
Japanese folklore encompasses the informally learned folk traditions of Japan and the Japanese people as expressed in its oral traditions, customs, and material culture. In Japanese, the term minkan denshō (民間伝承, "transmissions among the folk") is used to describe folklore. The academic study of folklore is known as minzokugaku ...
Therian may refer to: In taxonomy, a member of the mammalian subclass Theria , consisting of marsupial and placental mammals Therianthropy (disambiguation) , the mythological ability or affliction of individuals to metamorphose into animals or hybrids by means of shapeshifting