EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), BURNED SEAL MITSUNAGA [ECHIZEN DEME MITSUNAGA IV (D. 1672)] AND WITH KAO (CURSIVE MONOGRAM)

This is a type of Ayakashi mask created in the late Muromachi period by the mask carver Togo and a signature prop of the Kita school in the mid-Edo period. It is used almost exclusively for the spirits of warriors.