Echizen Demeke - Echizen Demeke

Japanese: 越前出目家 - えちぜんでめけ

A family of hereditary Noh mask makers from the early modern period. They dominated Noh mask production from the end of the Muromachi period through the Edo period, and are also known as the Deme Honke family. The founder was Sankobo's nephew Jirozaemon Mitsuteru, who is said to have been active around the Tenbun era (1532-55), and the wooden statue of Saint Shinsho (1581) at Saikyo-ji Temple in Shiga Prefecture is thought to be his work. The second head Jirozaemon Norimitsu and the third head Gensuke Hidemitsu (Furu-Gensuke) lived in Echizen Fuchu (present-day Takefu City, Fukui Prefecture), but the fourth head Genkyu Mitsunaga (Furu-Genkyu) moved to Kyoto, and later settled in Edo until the tenth head, Mitsumori.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

近世世襲能面作家の家系。室町時代の末から江戸時代を通じて能面制作の主流をなし，出目本家ともいわれる。三光坊の甥二郎左衛門満照が開祖で，彼は天文(1532‐55)ごろ活躍したと伝えられ，滋賀県西教寺の木造真盛上人像(1581)は彼の作品と考えられている。2代二郎左衛門則満，3代源助秀満(古源助)までは越前府中(現，福井県武生市)に住したが，4代元休満永(古元休)は京都に移り，のち10代満守まで江戸に定住した。

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