Hannya
Hannya（1900）Histoire de l’art du Japon, Maurice de Brunoff, n.a. [FR]
- 223Fig. 65 [b]. Masque de Hannya (Musée impérial) — Hannya est la jalousie personnifiée.
- 192-193The demon of jealousy, tormenting Awoi, first appears inthe form of the Princess Rakujo, then with theprogress and success of the exorcism the jealous quintessence is driven out of this personalghost, and appears in its own truly demonic (“hannya”) form – “That awful face withits golden eyes and horns revealed.”
- 195It seems difficult to make it clear that the “hannya” has been cast out ofthe ghostly personality, and that it had been,in a way, the motive force in the ghost’s actions.
- 248the reign of Saga Tennō there was aprincess who loved unavailingly, and she becameso enraged with jealousy that she went to the shrineof Kibune and prayed for seven days that she mightbecome a hannya.
- 248On the seventh day the god had pity, and appeared to her and said, “If you wishto become a hannya go to the Uji river and stay twenty-five days in the water.”
- 249He tells her his dream, andhow she is to become a hannya by the use of Kanawa
- 27It is a hannya, a demon, a terrible maskwith golden eyes, clothed in scarlet and white, faced by the exorcist, and thus describes himself
- 27The hannya threatens him with worse than death. Awoi is possessed, indeed!
- 30Masks for Deities, Buddhas and Monsters. Ayakashi, Taka, Mikazuki, Hannya, Kurohige, Dei-kotobide, Saru-tobide, Ko-tobide, Shikami, Ō-tobide, Ō-beshimi, Deikurohige, Chōrei-beshimi, Ten-jin, Fudō, Shintai, Kojishi, Ko-beshimi, Tō-gō, Shinkaku.