Notes

Sonota (Others) – Kagekiyo
Kagekiyo is the historical person, formally called “Aku-hichibe-kagekiyo”, who gained fame as a brave warrior at the battle of Yashima (1185. This mask is used exclusively in his history stories in which he descends in the miserable circumstance for the misfortune of defeat of the nobles he took part in.


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.