A Noh mask borrows its expression from the whole stage

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A theme essay on how carving, tilt, shadow, the actor's body, stage geometry, and learned convention make a fixed Noh mask emotionally mobile—and why laboratory studies complicate the familiar smile-and-frown rule.

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