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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 868205, member: 5833&quot;]Just in case folks don&#039;t want to search, the relevant bit:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>The third and fourth slips show one particular use of the long-nosed tengu mask. Here oversized masks are mounted on frames and worn as backpacks. The white clothing on the people carrying these curious items marks them as pilgrims; in fact, pilgrims to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotohira-g%C5%AB" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotohira-g%C5%AB" rel="nofollow">the Konpira Shrine on Shikoku</a> customarily carried such backpacks on their way to the shrine. The sight of white-clad pilgrims walking away while a tengu glares back at the viewer was immortalized in landscape printmaker <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshige" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshige" rel="nofollow">Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重</a>’s depiction of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numazu-juku#/media/File:Tokaido12_Numazu.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numazu-juku#/media/File:Tokaido12_Numazu.jpg" rel="nofollow">Numazu</a> in his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifty-three_Stations_of_the_T%C5%8Dkaid%C5%8D" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifty-three_Stations_of_the_T%C5%8Dkaid%C5%8D" rel="nofollow">Fifty-Three Stages of the Tōkaidō series</a> in the 1830s.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I know only a very little about Japanese imagery - nothing about tengu - but the hats &amp; staffs made me think they were pilgrims tight off.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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