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Hannya - History and Meaning of Hannya Mask

Noh is classical Japanese musical drama based on tales from traditional literature performed since the 14th century. In the story, supernatural beast transforms into homo shape and tells the story. The actors tell a story through gestures and appearance in masks. They capture the essence of the story.

Kyōgen is a course of traditional Japanese comic operation in the theater. It was performed equally an intermission between Noh acts.

Shinto is an ethnic religion in Nihon, and it focuses on ritual practices. Kagura is a type of Shinto theatrical dance.

The Hannya mask represents jealous female demon, snake and sometimes dragon in noh and kyōgen Japanese traditional theater plays and Shinto Kagura ritual dances. The mask has a learing mouth, sharp teeth, metallic optics (because it is not human) and 2 sharp devil-like horns. The first saved Hanna mask is from 1558. Hannya mask is one of the most recognizable masks in Noh plays.

This mask represents female rage and pain, and it is used when a detail graphic symbol needs to be invoked. These 2 emotions are difficult to capture at the same time. It represents female obsessed with a devil or taking a devil form of being. The expression of Hannya mask is at the same time demonic, aroused, frightening, unsafe and tormented, distressing, heartbreaking, melancholic and sorrowful. She begins as normal female, but when she is betrayed, get angry and jealous she turns into a demon.

When the mask is held directly ahead, it looks angry. When the mask is held a little downwardly it looks sad.

It's carved from a single piece of wood and often finished with very dark colored pigment. It can be made for display or to wear it for performance. The mask is white if representing aloof status, red if representing low class and dark if representing demon. There are tree masks expressing the change in female person emotions. The first mask expresses the jealousy, the second mask expresses a half way to the complete insanity, and the third mask is the saddest and expresses a female gone completely insane and converted into a demon.

In Japanese linguistic communication hannya means wisdom. Some stories say that the mask got its proper noun by monk artist Hannya, who perfected this mask and that he needed a great wisdom to make this mask. The perfection of transcendent wisdom is the perfect way of seeing the nature of reality so that you can protect yourself from the female person demon.

Sometimes these masks are made to look happy from one angle and pitiful from some other bending. It is likewise a Japan symbol of a good luck and it wards off the evil. Hannya Mask is popular tattoo motif.

In ane play Prince Genji married to his married woman Lady Aoi when he was young. He had a mistress Lady Rokujo. When Lady Aoi became pregnant, Genji began to ignore Lady Rokujo. In anger, Lady Rokujo'south spirit left her body, possessed Lady Aoi's torso and led to Lady Aoi's expiry. So this story presented betrayed and angry women who transformed into Hannya demon.

One tail says that princess Kiyohime vicious in love with passing by priest Anchin. He overcame his love for her. Her acrimony turned her into serpent or dragon, and she followed his. Anchin hid under the big bell of the temple. When Kiyohime institute him, she breathed fire, melted the bong, and he died.

Another of the tails says that Hanna demon tormented people. One samurai, named Watanable no Tsuna, wanted to end the creature. He waited for the fauna to announced, but it was a cute immature female. She asked him to escort her home. He saw her changing to Hanna and cut her arm with his sword. She vanished. The samurai took her arm domicile and locked it in a chest. Years later on she visited his dwelling bearded every bit his aunt, got her arm dorsum and fled.

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