{"id":4585,"date":"2016-10-21T18:09:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T18:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2016-10-21T18:09:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T18:09:58","slug":"giant-shinshu-mask-from-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/giant-shinshu-mask-from-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Shinshu mask from Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"aaaMystrySolvd-1043\"<\/a>Q:\u00a0<\/strong> This is a very large paper mache mask.\u00a0 It is Japanese and comes from the Shinshu region.\u00a0 Size is 52cm W x 66cm H.\u00a0 There is a collection of 12 – one for each month.\u00a0 The one I have is July.\u00a0 I bought it close to 30 years ago. \u00a0Apparently they were to protect people when traveling. \u00a0The Japanese name is \u9053\u795e\u9762 (road\/god\/mask). \u00a0There are also smaller masks in wood, with the same designs.\u00a0 I have searched on the net to see if they are still sold, however, I have been unable to find any – only books in Japanese about the artist and his works.<\/p>\n

Here is a site showing some of the masks:<\/div>\n
http:\/\/image.search.yahoo.co.jp\/search?p=\u9053\u795e\u9762\u4fe1\u5dde&aq=-1&ei=UTF-8&clr=1&fr=top_ga1_sa#mode%3Ddetail%26index%3D1%26st%3D15<\/a><\/div>\n
Susan, 1043<\/div>\n
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A:<\/strong>\u00a0 The above link shows the small and the large versions. But how would the large version be used? It’s certainly not meant to be worn. The Japanese use masks many different ways– ceremonies, parades, theater performances, good luck, decoration and souvenirs. They are also a very common gift item, which would be unusual anywhere else in the world.<\/div>\n
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Q:\u00a0 This is a very large paper mache mask.\u00a0 It is Japanese and comes from the Shinshu region.\u00a0 Size is 52cm W x 66cm H.\u00a0 There is a collection of 12 – one for each month.\u00a0 The one I have is July.\u00a0 I bought it close to 30 years ago. \u00a0Apparently they were to protect people when traveling. \u00a0The Japanese name is \u9053\u795e\u9762 (road\/god\/mask). \u00a0There are also smaller masks in wood, with the same designs.\u00a0 I have searched on the net to see if they are still sold, however, I have been unable to find any – only books in Japanese about the artist and his works. Here is a site showing some of the masks: http:\/\/image.search.yahoo.co.jp\/search?p=\u9053\u795e\u9762\u4fe1\u5dde&aq=-1&ei=UTF-8&clr=1&fr=top_ga1_sa#mode%3Ddetail%26index%3D1%26st%3D15 Susan, 1043 A:\u00a0 The above link shows the small and the large versions. But how would the large version be used? It’s certainly not meant to be worn. The Japanese use masks many different ways– ceremonies, parades, theater performances, good luck, decoration and souvenirs. They are also a very common gift item, which would be unusual anywhere else in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4585","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\/4585","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=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4587,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions\/4587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}