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EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
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A MEMPO
Edo Period (18th century)
The russet lacquered mask made form a single piece of pressed leather shows a broad fatish face with parallel wrinkles on the cheeks either side of the mouth which is open in a broad smile [emi-men], the lips lacquered red and the leather teeth gold lacquered, beneath the nose is a stiff white hair moustache, the interior lacquered red, a shallow three-plate black lacquered throat defence with a shaped lower plate laced with spaced dark blue lacing
Edo Period (18th century)
The russet lacquered mask made form a single piece of pressed leather shows a broad fatish face with parallel wrinkles on the cheeks either side of the mouth which is open in a broad smile [emi-men], the lips lacquered red and the leather teeth gold lacquered, beneath the nose is a stiff white hair moustache, the interior lacquered red, a shallow three-plate black lacquered throat defence with a shaped lower plate laced with spaced dark blue lacing
Literature
Kazuo Iida, Katchu-men (Japan, 1991), no.55.