Zo-onna

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Le masque de zo-onna (増女, s’écrivant aussi zou-onna, zoo-onna ou zō-onna) est un masque du théâtre japonais nô. Il fut créé par le célèbre danseur de dengaku Zōami Hisatsugu et représente une jeune femme dont le visage et empreint de dignité et de réserve.

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Image: own photograph of 17th-18-h century Noh mask, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.