Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, accession number 9-7604, described as Kagami-buta netsuke: Noh mask of a man. Tragic expression. Signed by Deme family. According to the donor's catalog: "First of the three mask - netsukes in wood over three hundred years old. Hone by the members of the Heme family, who flourished through four generations, through the seventeenth century (in part) and the eighteenth century (in part). Famous for their Mo - Masks - Mask no 1. Yase - Otoko. The ghost of man whose soul can not rest in peace - because of resentment, for a grievous wrong done to him while living. The eye [untranscribable] meet over the nose and the mouth is in a tragic droop - and the cheeks touch under the eyes and fallairay from the sides of the face. This depicts the ghost of the fisherman of Fujito Sasaki Moritsuna of Omi - a retainer of Yoritomo (the Minamoto chieftain) went in 11 and 4 with Moriyari (brother of Yoritomo) to attack the taira, encamped on one side of the straits of Fujito. for many days, the two faces watched each other- with no action, save [untranscribable] till Martitsana tired of inacting, started, himself, to seek a ford. he occured the services of a fisherman -- and once the location of the ford was ascertained - he killed the man, for fear he might turn traitor. the day after, he plunged unto the water and was followed across the Fijto Straits by the whole army - defeating the Taira. Yoritomo promoted him in rank and gave him the estate of Kojina - all very fine for Sasaki Moritsuna but ethics demand 'hear about the poor fisherman!!' The answer is in this mask."