Japanese Mask Presented By Prison Warden

I wonder who it was presented it to? I doubt to a prisoner. Maybe US official that has visited the prison?
Was it made by the warden himself or just a tourist type of piece?

 

Ten days after Pearl Harbor Day. Makes me wonder if it was some kind of ceremony marking peace after the war.

 

It was likely a piece in a small, possibly private, museum that is now defunct and disbursed.

 

Home of the 7th Fleet. (Yokosuka, not the prison.)

Debora

 

But the note reads Prison.

 

Although after a weeks shore leave........................

 

Yokosuko is the prison where U.S. servicemen convicted in Japanese courts serve out their sentences. Sure to be goodwill visits with U.S. military officials.

https://www.stripes.com/news/ex-marine-decries-nature-of-japan-prison-work-1.21905#.WXIW8xQ4k6U

Debora