Artworks

Face mask in the form of Jikokuten

Artwork · Myochin Muneakira · 1745 · mask · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A face guard by the master armourer Myochin Muneakira (1673–1745) in the form of Jikokuten, one of the Shitennō, with the fierce features of the guardian Niō at temple gates — iron that a fighting warrior could still have used, though it was made for display in procession. 1 Mason 2005, p. 303, fig. 349. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.