Notes on specific plays - 'Kinuta'

Kinuta - Masks (click on image for full-sized image)

The maid Yugiri
is represented by the mask of a young woman (ko-omote)

The living wife is represented by a mask used for middle-aged women; in this case "fukai" (deep-well)

The spirit of the wife after her death is represented usually with an female angry spirit mask "deigan" (gilded eyes), the image below and left; sometimes it is represented with the female angry spirit mask "yase-onna" (emaciated woman) and that image is below right