Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional stories - A lot of anime characters wear a fox or some other kind of mask, so what's the purpose of this mask? What is the purpose of this mask? Does it have any special meaning?

A lot of anime characters wear a fox or some other kind of mask, so what's the purpose of this mask? What is the purpose of this mask? Does it have any special meaning?

In Japan, kabuki is the equivalent of Beijing Opera in China. .....

In the 15th century in Japan, there appeared a kabuki named "Aguni" who was originally an abomination in Izumo, and in order to raise money for the restoration of her temple, she began to tour Japan. So she started her tour in Japan. .... A lot of her story is a mystery, so a lot of things are not known ....

"Izumo Aguni" is also the founder of the opera business in Japan...

And by the third general of the Edo Shogunate... Tokugawa Iemitsu no longer allowed women to perform... Slowly the Kabuki in Japan was all male... They were required to wear masks similar to the roles they were to play with respect to the performers and the roles they were playing .....

And fox masks have been around since the days of ninjas... It's said that there was a legend of the nine-tailed fox in Japan a long time ago... With the Japanese believe that the fox will bring good clouds and have this kind of power ..... And in ancient Japan, there was always a class system... As a ninja, you can never have power and you are always under your lord ..... A ninja's face can only be seen when he returns home or when he meets his master... Generally in the execution of the mission need to wear a mask, or as we often see the ninja mask this whole face put ...