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A dance piece in *bugaku y, as well as the mask *bugakumen yΚ, used in that dance. The Ama mask is made of paper *zoumen Κ, and worn for the dance that usually begins a program. Ama probably derives from ancient ground-breaking ceremonies of India. It is a quiet dance hiramai ½, of the Left sa-no-mai Ά, said to have been brought from China tougaku y by the monk Buttetsu §O in 736 and recomposed during the 9c at the Heian Court. The dance is paired with *Ni-no-mai ρΙ, a dance of the Left, and together they can be understood to represent the cosmos; "ama" can mean "heaven," while the dark, grotesque Ni-no-mai masks evoke the spirits of the earth. Unlike most wooden bugaku masks, the Ama mask is a rectangular sheet of white paper (or cloth) with triangular holes for eyes and a patternized beard, eyebrows, nose, and cheeks painted in black. The oldest extant Ama masks date from the Edo period, but 8c cloth masks for *gigaku κy preserved in the *Shousouin ³q@ Repository of Toudaiji ε in Nara give a good idea of early tradition. | ||||||
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*Soriko hΓ, *Kotokuraku ΣΏy@ | ||||||
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