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Artist Carving a Mask, Kyoto, Japan, 2004

An artist in Kyoto, Japan, carves a mask used in Noh, one of Japan's oldest theatre genres. The masks generally wear a deadpan expression. In Noh, the drama is conveyed through the music and the actors' symbolic movements.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Found in Translation," May/June 2004, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

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