A 19th century carved nut, depicting the mask of Hyottoko
Hyottoko (火男) is a comical Japanese character, portrayed through the use of a mask. His mouth is puckered and skewed to one side. Some masks have different eye sizes between the left and right eyes. He is often wearing a scarf around his head (usually white with blue dots). There is a similar character for women called Okame (阿亀) or Otafuku (阿多福).
The origin of the name comes from "fire" (火, hi) and "man" (男, otoko), this could be because the character is blowing fire with a bamboo pipe, hence the shape of the mouth. Local dialects transformed it into Hyottoko (ひょっとこ)[citation needed], palatalizing hio to hyo and making the /t/ geminate.
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