Yoroboshi Noh mask

Máscara Noh yoroboshi

Paulownia wood, pigments Edo period, 18th c. Inv. CA-CFC.857

Noh and its masks

As a masked drama, Noh theatre combines mime, poetic chanting and music. The wooden masks, slightly smaller than the actor’s face, were carved from cypress or paulóvnia, and exteriors coated with paint over gesso.