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On’na (Women) – Ko-omote
Ko-omote represents a lovely and fresh girl, who appears as the tsure in the stories of “Izutsu”, “Kinuta”, “Sesshōseki”, “Funabenkei”, “Matsukaze” and “Eguchi”. "Ko-omote" literally means “small mask”, but in this case it signifies the “face with sweetness, elegance and youthfulness”.


Shime Waki (和 知 七五 三) (1934-2012, born in Ibaraki, Japan), Photographer,
As a photographer of art was very attracted by the Noh masks. After he began to produce the Noh mask as a hobby rather than for the theater in Yokohama, Japan, and showed his works at various national and international exhibitions.