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Noh mask of Koomote

Noh mask of Koomote in polychrome painted carved wood (see Notes)

Object ID 531
Type Gifts
Donor Miwa Mitamura
Country Japan
Material Polychrome painted carved wood
Dimensions L 14 cm × H 22,5 cm × P 6,9 cm
Location S1
Place Palazzo Coppini, Firenze

Notes

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.

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