{"id":642,"date":"2013-08-21T22:15:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T22:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masksfromaroundtheworld.com\/?p=642"},"modified":"2015-11-08T19:53:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T19:53:29","slug":"the-best-noh-masks-are-carved-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/the-best-noh-masks-are-carved-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"The best Noh masks are carved wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-643\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-530n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-643\" alt=\"Japanese Noh\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-530n.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-530n.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-530n-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese Noh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> This Noh mask is made up of layers&#8211; the back is black lacquer, then white gesso, and finally a brown fibrous material.\u00a021cm tall. Any idea of it&#8217;s age, what character it\u00a0represents?\u00a0 Rho, 530<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> The Noh theater tradition goes way back.<!--more--> The best masks have always been carved wood. For over 100 years they have also been molded out of composite materials like this one, papier mache, and ceramics. Yours could be 19th century. It&#8217;s a male character, of which there are many that are hard to distinguish from one another.\u00a0Maybe one of our bloggers is a\u00a0Noh theater enthusiast and can introduce us to this guy.\u00a0<strong>A-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: This Noh mask is made up of layers&#8211; the back is black lacquer, then white gesso, and finally a brown fibrous material.\u00a021cm tall. Any idea of it&#8217;s age, what character it\u00a0represents?\u00a0 Rho, 530 A: The Noh theater tradition goes way back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","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\/642","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=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3389,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/3389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}