Sakamoto Hanjiro first saw Noh performed in 1913, when he was thirty-one. He then started going with the poet Miki Rofu to performances at the Noh Theater in the Peers’ Club in Kudan, Tokyo. Later, when his wife, Kaoru, began taking part in the tea ceremony, he went with her when she was collecting tea utensils and purchased his first Noh mask, a koomote or mask representing a young woman, at an antique dealer’s. Thereafter, seizing every opportunity, he acquired a variety of masks. His series of thirty some Noh mask paintings, which he began when he was sixty, is highly regarded. Just the Noh actor positions his body perfectly on the stage, he has arranged the script, mask, and drum exquisitely, in a careful composition filled with peace and tranquility.