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Masks

work by Enchi

Also known as: “Onnamen”

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discussed in biography

In Enchi Fumiko
Masks) depicts, by invoking the various female masks used in the Noh dramas, different unhappy women. Enchi’s early background in Japanese classical literature is revealed in her allusions not only to the Noh plays but to the 11th-century classic Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji).
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