Thursday 31 March 2011

Mask of Hannya

Today I've been going through some of the books I got out of the LRC on masks from different cultures. One that is really standing out to me at the moment is the Mask of Hannya, which is a character of the Noh theatre production in Japan. It is meant to represent a once beautiful woman whose unrequited love for a priest causes her to turn into a demon overwhelmed by jealousy and anger.
The British Museum has a lot of masks from different cultures and on their website it says that this mask is there so I think in the Easter half term I might go and visit there as well as the V&A museum so I can get pictures etc to help me with my research on my FMP (:
Hannah x

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