✳︎Title: Masks of Japan: Houses of the Gods ✳︎Author: Shijuro Morita ✳︎Binding: Tomiyasu Shiraiwa ✳︎Publisher: Tokai University Press ✳︎Published: 1982 ✳︎Binding, Number of Pages (Softcover/254p) ✳︎Size: 260 x 185mm ✳︎Condition: Closed book from a university library A book exploring the beauty and culture of Japanese masks. It features many kagura masks, kyogen masks, dengaku masks, etc., passed down throughout Japan, from Tohoku to Okinawa. It explains the origins, uses, and roles of various masks. ✳︎Table of Contents Masks: From Their Origins to Their Beauty Koichiro Shinoda Kyogen Masks and Me Tojiro Yamamoto Women Didn't Need Masks Asaya Fujita An Overview of Ethnic Masks Masahiro Nishizumi The Black Current and Masks Kenichi Tanigawa Mask Construction Shijuro Morita Table of Contents and Other (※Check photos) ◎ Shijuro Morita Born in Ginza, Tokyo in 1937. Member of the Japan Professional Photographers Society. Worked at the National Theatre Preparation Office in 1966. Retired in 2002. Continues to take photographs of various themes, mainly stage photography, from a fresh perspective. Also active as a director from classical performing arts to contemporary dance. Major photo collections include "Noh no Omote 1, 2" "Zankoku no Bi" "Stone Buddhas" (Haga Shoten) "Tsubu" (Tokai University Press) "Noh" "Kyogen Tojiro Yamamoto" "Women Dancing Noh" (Shin Jinbutsu Orai-sha) "Kumadori" "Noh no Shiki" "Dosojin" (Kyoto Shoin) "Apollo and Dionysus: Kuma Hashioka's Noh" (Art Digest) "Buyo" (Being Net Press) and many others. Solo exhibitions include "Kumadori" (a 5-year tour of the United States) and "Tsubu, Haneru, Habaku" and many others. ◎ ⤵︎Search Terms Kamagami (God of the Kiln) Noh Kyogen Mask Dengaku Mask Masked Dance Photographic Folklore Gods of East and West Kazuya Takaoka #Shijuro Morita Mutsuo Takahashi Yoshiko Goto Shuzaburo Hagiwara Mask MASK Mask Noh Mask Old Mask Stone Mask Bugaku Mask Gyodo Mask Oni Mask (Demon Mask) Kitsune-gao (Fox Face) Tengu Mask Kagura Mask Kyogen Ko-Noh (Old Noh) Kitsune-men (Fox Mask) Otafuku Hien (Fire Man) Japanese Culture and Faith The Japanese Homeland Hideo Haga Japanese Folklore Minority Ethnic Groups Gods of Abundance Gods of the House The Rehabilitation of Demons Possession by a God Shinju (Sacred Tree): The Pillar of East Asia Gods of the Border and Crossroads Gods of Mountains and Forests The People Who Brought Rice The Miao and the Culture of the Jiangnan Ethnic Group Japanese Festivals Yo-kyoku Hyakuban (100 Noh Songs) Genwa Ugetsu Book Masked Drama The Formation of Noh and Zeami Noh and Japanese Culture Yugyo Geino (Traveling Performing Arts) The Development of Medieval Performing Arts Introduction to the Study of Noh Mask History The Origin of Nohgaku Ko-Noh (Old Noh) Medieval Performing Arts Materials Masks of the Medieval Period in History Folklore Studies Nohgaku Related to History Mask History Kohei Sugiura Masks of Asia Oshira-sama Transforming Gods Taro Okamoto Arashi Miyatamura Dosojin Mask Korean Masks