Informative Essay On Hannya Mask

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The Hannya mask resembles a desirous female demon, which usually plays a serpent and dragon role in Noh and Kyōgen Japanese customary venue plays and Shinto Kagura ritual dances. This mask has a leering mouth, metallic eyes, sharp teeth and two sharp villain horns. The first ever spared Hannya mask is from 1558. It is one of the most famous theater masks in Asia. In Japanese, Hannya implies wisdom. Some old tails say that the mask got it’s an old monk artist called Hannya; who idealized this mask and that he required an extraordinary wisdom to complete this mask. The flawlessness of extraordinary wisdom is the ideal method of seeing the idea of reality with the goal that you can shield yourself from the female demon. The Hannya mask resembles

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