柴田是真作 翁面図|Mask for the Noh Play Okina
Shibata Zeshin
dated 1879 · Hanging scroll; pigments, lacquer, mother-of-pearl, gold foil, and ink on paper · Asian Art
The Noh play Okina is a sacred rite in which actors perform as divine characters who dance for peace, prosperity, and safety across the land.While the character Senzai dances, the shite (lead actor) puts on the mask of Okina to transform into a deity. The mask shown here peers out from a brocaded silk mask bag embellished with the auspicious motifs of tortoiseshell patterns and crane roundels.
- Artist
- Shibata Zeshin
- Date
- dated 1879
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; pigments, lacquer, mother-of-pearl, gold foil, and ink on paper
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975
