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Description: Japanese polychrome wooden <i>Noh</i> theatre mask of the <i>Kasshiki</i> (meal announcer temple boy) type. It portrays a handsome, untonsured acolyte or novice, aged 12 to 17, who trains in a Zen Buddhist monastery, serving as a <i>sekkyōja</i> or <i>hōkazō</i> (a lay preacher and popular entertainer).


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