Broadly-speaking, there are various types of wood carving and dry lacquer (technique involving laying lacquer onto a mold and drying it to make the base), while the wood-carved masks in the Asuka period were basically made from camphor, and the ones in the Nara period from paulownia.
大きくわけて木彫と乾漆（型にうるしを塗り固め素地をつくったもの）があり、木彫は飛鳥時代のものがおおむねクスノキ、奈良時代がキリをつかって作られている。