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No Mask for the Role of Yorimasa
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Minamoto no Yorimasa was a 12th-century samurai who lost his life in the power struggle then raging. In the No play Yorimasa presents himself as a spirit to a priest. The warrior recounts his tragic end on a battlefield, when he and a few men vainly faced heavy odds to win time for a prince to escape.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineNo Mask for the Role of Yorimasa. 1800 - 1850. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
