A tengu men [face mask formed as a tengu] | Edo period, 17th century

Property from an American Collection

A tengu men [face mask formed as a tengu] 

Edo period, 17^th century 

the black lacquer mask with prominent pointed jaw and detachable nose plate, the nose modelled after a mythical tengu, red lacquer interior, four-tiered yodaregake [throat protecter] with sugake odoshi [spaced lacing] in light yellow braid