{"id":2362,"date":"2015-02-25T21:45:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T21:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2015-11-08T20:27:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T20:27:53","slug":"cute-japanese-party-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/cute-japanese-party-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Cute Japanese party mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-746.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2363\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-746-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-746\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-746-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-746.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Could you please tell me what you can about these two papier mache masks- country of origin, age, purpose? One looks like an animal, possibly a fox, the other appears to be possibly a human caricature. I bought them together at a flea market last year and they look like they are from same maker.\u00a0Thanks,\u00a0 Sal, 746<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 I believe this is an inexpensive mask made for ordinary people in Japan. <!--more-->It looks more like a cat to me. Both of your paper masks look like they&#8217;ve been used for holiday celebrations. Perhaps they represent anime characters. If not, they are stylistically similar. This is traditional Japanese folk art from the middle or late 20th century.\u00a0 <strong>A-<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 Could you please tell me what you can about these two papier mache masks- country of origin, age, purpose? One looks like an animal, possibly a fox, the other appears to be possibly a human caricature. I bought them together at a flea market last year and they look like they are from same maker.\u00a0Thanks,\u00a0 Sal, 746 A:\u00a0 I believe this is an inexpensive mask made for ordinary people in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2362","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\/2362","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=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3381,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/3381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}