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This mask is based on a copy of the "Ko-Omote", and was created
based on the image of a Tsure (village woman) who is unable to accept the
love of a man (Awa-otoko) in the Noh play "Nishikigi". The man
(Awa-otoko) continues the custom of setting up a nishikigi (if the woman
accepts, her love will be granted) for three years, but is not accepted.
The woman and the man, who has taken the form of a vengeful spirit, re-enact
the past to repent---the woman weaves a loom and the man sets up the nishikigi
outside, but is not accepted, and after three years, both the nishikigi
and the man's body decay. |
