Nō Mask of Waka-Otoko

The waka-otoko mask represents the head of a young man. In the play Ominaeshi [Golden Lace], the ghost of a young man talks about his love tragedy: the woman with whom he had had a brief relationship jumped to her death into a river and then turned into an ominaeshi flower. Out of a sense of guilt, he too jumped into the river. Now in hell, they both are tormented by demons.