Item Information

Dublin Core

Title

Kyogen mask of adult female (Oto)

Description

Comic mask of jolly woman. Her face is the natural wood; fat-cheeked, heavy-jowled, and has a broad forehead and happy expression. She may be the character Numi from Noh drama

Source

Dramatic Museum Realia

Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

Identifier

DM number: M1.26

Box: 65

Coverage

Japan

Additional Item Metadata

Provenance

purchase, Orientalia, NY, 1936

Citation

Persona Grata: An Exhibition of Masks from 1200 B.C. to the Present. (Houston: Jones Hall Fine Arts Gallery, University of St. Thomas, 1960), no. 45.

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Masks (costume)

wood

Physical Dimensions

12x9.375"

Citation

“Kyogen mask of adult female (Oto),” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed December 19, 2025, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/items/show/2492.