{"id":2129,"date":"2014-12-04T21:49:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T21:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2015-11-08T20:28:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T20:28:18","slug":"japans-most-popular-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/japans-most-popular-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s most popular mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2130\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-706.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2130\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-706-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hannya\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I have a Hannya mask that was given to me by my mother years ago. \u00a0I am not sure as to its authenticity or age. \u00a0It looks like one of the nicer masks I have seen and I believe it is made of wood. \u00a0I am guessing it is a reproduction but really have no idea. \u00a0Any information would be appreciated. \u00a0Thanks.\u00a0 Tom, 706<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 The mask of Noh theater character &#8220;Hannya&#8221; is collected and reproduced a great deal, probably more than any other.<!--more--> These masks can be made out of carved wood, papier mache, various molded materials including clay, metal, putty, etc. I don&#8217;t think yours is wood, but you can easily check with a sharp knife on the rear. Yours is quite handsome but not particularly well made by Japanese standards. It was made for the wall, not for wearing in a play. They have been making decorative masks for a very long time and some of them are beautiful and quite collectible.\u00a0 <strong>C+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I have a Hannya mask that was given to me by my mother years ago. \u00a0I am not sure as to its authenticity or age. \u00a0It looks like one of the nicer masks I have seen and I believe it is made of wood. \u00a0I am guessing it is a reproduction but really have no idea. \u00a0Any information would be appreciated. \u00a0Thanks.\u00a0 Tom, 706 A:\u00a0 The mask of Noh theater character &#8220;Hannya&#8221; is collected and reproduced a great deal, probably more than any other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3380,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions\/3380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}