KITSUKI AKANO<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"I do not recognise this mark, but it would presumably belong to some merchant, or perhaps travelling players of some kind."</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I looked at Doji-san,<strong>"Would they not need to be an extremely numerous band of travelling players in order to require <em>ten boxes</em> of masks? Theatrical masks are of distinct design and function, though it is not my area of skill, but surely only a few distinct masks are used in theatre? It struck me that the masks might be more casual festival wear, in which case the stamp on the boxes could belong to the merchant who purchased them or he who manufactured them."</strong>