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"Emaciated man." Noh mask *noumen ”\–Κ representing a ghost suffering in hell. Lean flesh barely disguises the skeletal structure of this mask. Sunken eyes and weakly open mouth both turn down. The lack of lower teeth and thin limpid lines of hair add to the sense of impassiveness. The bland, earthy coloring appears bloodless. Only the metallic eyeballs highlighted with vermilion suggest an affinity with the superhuman. While some yaseotoko masks have broad faces with wide-set eyes, others have smaller features set closer together, like the fine example owned by the Mitsui ŽOˆδ Art Museum, Tokyo and formerly the model mask honmen –{–Κ of the Kongou ‹ΰ„ school, which bears an inscription attributing it to the 15c carver Himi •XŒ© (see *jissaku \μ).
Yaseotoko is used by all schools of *nou ”\ for men suffering in hell, either from having disobeyed the Buddhist dictate not to take life, such as the hunter in UTOU ‘P’m’Ή and the fisherman in AKOGI ˆ’‘†, or who are obsessed with unfair treatment in life, like the fisherman in FUJITO “‘ŒΛ and the lover Fukakusa no Shoushou [‘­« in KAYOI KOMACHI ’ʏ¬’¬. For the last play, the more refined variant masks of shoushou ­« and fukakusaotoko [‘’j were devised in the mid-Edo period.
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*onryoumen ‰…—μ–Κ, *kawazu Š^, *hatachi amari “ρ\—].
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