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A black-lacquer armor 18th century
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A black-lacquer armor
18th century
Laced in blue and comprising a thirty-two plate suji kabuto with a four-stage shakudo and gilt-metal chrysanthemum tehen kanamono and a five-lame shikoro ending in fukigaeshi trimmed in "rope" fukirin and applied with family crests of plum blossoms within circles, the maedate a gold-lacquer rhombus; the menpo applied with a stiff-bristle mustache, red-lacquer upper lip and fitted with a five-lame yodarekake; the yokohagi okegawa hatomune do with standing rivets, fukurin, and applied with an outer pocket on the right side and with seven sections of five-lame kusazuri, the reverse with a bracket for a battle standard; chu sode; oda gote; Etchu haidate; shino suneate; one storage box; no armor stand
With Koshu Tokubetsu Kicho Shiryo (Especially valuable material of the top rank) certificate no. 38 issued by the Nihon Bugu Katchu Kenkyu Hozonkai (Society for the Preservation of Japanese Armor), dated 1976.10.17
Laced in blue and comprising a thirty-two plate suji kabuto with a four-stage shakudo and gilt-metal chrysanthemum tehen kanamono and a five-lame shikoro ending in fukigaeshi trimmed in "rope" fukirin and applied with family crests of plum blossoms within circles, the maedate a gold-lacquer rhombus; the menpo applied with a stiff-bristle mustache, red-lacquer upper lip and fitted with a five-lame yodarekake; the yokohagi okegawa hatomune do with standing rivets, fukurin, and applied with an outer pocket on the right side and with seven sections of five-lame kusazuri, the reverse with a bracket for a battle standard; chu sode; oda gote; Etchu haidate; shino suneate; one storage box; no armor stand
With Koshu Tokubetsu Kicho Shiryo (Especially valuable material of the top rank) certificate no. 38 issued by the Nihon Bugu Katchu Kenkyu Hozonkai (Society for the Preservation of Japanese Armor), dated 1976.10.17
Footnotes
EXHIBITED:
"Token to bugu" (Swords and armor) at the following venues:
Daiwa Department Store, Kanazawa City, 1987.6.11-16
Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Kanazawa City, 1987.8.27-9.11