Noh mask Omi-onna (woman)

This mask reveals the ink letters written on its base. They read that a mask carver in Kyoto named Iseki Hikoji duplicated the Omi-onna mask handed down in the Kanze family by the request of a high-ranking officer in Edo. It is believed that Hikoji worked near Ieshige. It was an important function of hereditary mask carver in the Edo period to make replicas of old famous masks.