Karasu Tengu Mask Uchide no kozuchi and curved eyebrows to give

and curved eyebrows to give the impression of laughter emerging from the parted lips

Almost always depicted with horns

Utagawa Kunisada (歌川 国貞

Japanese Kibatobide Mask

The closed-mouth guardian

Karasu Tengu Mask Uchide no kozuchi and curved eyebrows to giveTraditional Japanese Karasu Tengu Mask Description Karasu Tengu ( ) were 1st reported in "Nihon Shoki" (The Chronicles of Japan) in the 8th century, and since then, they've popped up continuously in Japan's archives. In "Tale of the Heike" (12C Chronicle of Japan) describes Karasu Tengu as "men but not men; bird but not a bird; dog but not a dog; they possess the hands of a human, the head of a canine, a pair of wings and are capable of both flight