{"id":4164,"date":"2016-05-11T19:33:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T19:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4164"},"modified":"2016-05-11T19:36:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T19:36:49","slug":"japanese-bugaku-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/japanese-bugaku-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Bugaku mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-968.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4168\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4168\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-968-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-968\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-968-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-968-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-968-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-968-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:\u00a0<\/strong> Aaron is kind enough to share his recent acquisitions once again. Here is what he has to say about this exciting Japanese mask&#8230; <em>The black mask is indeed Japanese.\u00a0 It\u2019s an old Bugaku mask, called Somakusha.\u00a0 Masks like this predate Noh theatre and were used in Shinto temple ritual dances.\u00a0 Also, unlike Noh, Bugaku masks are not all made of wood.\u00a0 Some are, but others (like this one) are made from kanshitsu, which is a composite made from resin and wood dust, then covered with lacquer.\u00a0<\/em> Aaron, 968<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:\u00a0<\/strong> Traditional masks have always been of great interest to the Japanese. In addition to ritual usage, they are bought to be displayed as art in the home, or to be given as a gift. For hundreds of years monks have been selling them and at the shrines for sale to worshipers and tourists. In Japan, <em>tourist<\/em> is not a derogatory term to mask collectors.\u00a0 <strong>A<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 Aaron is kind enough to share his recent acquisitions once again. Here is what he has to say about this exciting Japanese mask&#8230; The black mask is indeed Japanese.\u00a0 It\u2019s an old Bugaku mask, called Somakusha.\u00a0 Masks like this predate Noh theatre and were used in Shinto temple ritual dances.\u00a0 Also, unlike Noh, Bugaku masks are not all made of wood.\u00a0 Some are, but others (like this one) are made from kanshitsu, which is a composite made from resin and wood dust, then covered with lacquer.\u00a0 Aaron, 968 A:\u00a0 Traditional masks have always been of great interest to the Japanese. In addition to ritual usage, they are bought to be displayed as art in the home, or to be given as a gift. For hundreds of years monks have been selling them and at the shrines for sale to worshipers and tourists. In Japan, tourist is not a derogatory term to mask collectors.\u00a0 A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4164","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\/4164","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=4164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4169,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions\/4169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}