By LISA VOGT/ Special to Asahi Weekly
January 11, 2022 at 07:00 JST
At the Namahage-kan museum, visitors can view a wide variety of 150 Namahage masks actually used in New Year’s Eve rituals of each town and village in the Oga Peninsula. (Photo by Lisa Vogt)
Outside the arrival terminal of Akita Airport, I saw a panel of two rather kitsch, ogre-like demons, one with a blue and the other a red face, dressed in, how might I put it, a “fashionable,” somewhat Yamamoto Kansai-ish outfit. [Read More]
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