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| Masks, widely used in festivals to represent visitors or characters from the other world and from legend. They tend to have grotesque features such as horns, sharp teeth, unkempt hair, round eyes or other unsettling deformities. Most common are the oni (demon) masks of various kinds and masks used by performers in kagura, bugaku and shishi-mai See also Hyottoko, O-ta-fuku, Saruda-hiko A Popular Dictionary of Shinto (Brian Bocking) | |||