General Lee Yo-seong

Japanese: 将李魚成 - しょうりぎょせい

A mask maker from the Nara period. His birth and death years are unknown. Many of his masks have his name written on them along with the date of the Great Buddha's eye-opening ceremony on April 9, 752 (Tenpyo Shoho 4). In wood carvings, he writes "Shori" and in dry lacquer, "Sangri". He appears to have been the most skilled of the mask makers of his time, and the wooden sumo wrestler mask in the Shosoin Repository and the dry lacquer mask of the drunken monk in Todaiji Temple are representative of his work. [Tanabe Saburosuke]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

奈良時代の伎楽面作家。生没年不詳。752年(天平勝宝4)4月9日の大仏開眼供養会の日付とともに，その名を記す面が多く，木彫の場合に将李，乾漆の場合に相李と書き分けているようである。当代の伎楽面作家中，最も優れた手腕をもっていたようで，正倉院の木彫力士面や東大寺の乾漆酔胡従面はその代表的な作品である。【田辺三郎助】

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