The Seikado Bunko Art Museum in Marunouchi, Tokyo, will mount THE MASKS, an exhibition tracing the gaze of people who were captivated by old masks in the early modern and modern eras, collecting and recarving them. The show runs from November 21, 2026, to January 17, 2027. The exhibition looks at ogre masks of the 18th and 19th centuries, including a wooden ogre mask and a small bell with an ogre face that belonged to Matsuura Takeshiro, the explorer-collector who named Hokkaido, alongside records of the exchange and connoisseurship among literati of the period. Another focus is the virtuosic "recreations of ancient masks" by Kano Tetsuya (1845–1925), who accompanied Ernest Fenollosa and Okakura Tenshin on temple surveys and served as the first sculpture professor at the Tokyo Fine Arts School. Eighteen of Tetsuya's masks, based on Nara-period gigaku and tsuina masks yet shaped by his own interpretation, will be gathered in one place. The museum will also show all 67 of its Noh masks, passed down from the Mizoguchi family of the Shibata domain in Niigata, together with the mask cabinet that housed them — the complete set on view for the first time — plus craft objects using Noh-mask motifs never previously exhibited. Through them, the show approaches the world of Noh that absorbed the museum's founder, the industrialist Iwasaki Yanosuke, late in life. A special display by the artist duo Nerhol, known for portraits made with petrified wood, reexamines the meaning of face and mask from a contemporary standpoint.