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A BLACK-LACQUER SUIT OF ARMOR WITH AN IMPORTANT MYŌCHIN KABUTO Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century
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A BLACK-LACQUER SUIT OF ARMOR WITH AN IMPORTANT MYŌCHIN KABUTO
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century
Laced in blue with orange and white highlights, comprising a russet-iron 62-plate ko-boshi kabuto, each plate with 27 finely forged hoshi (standing rivets) diminishing in size as the approach the crown, the bowl surmounted by a five-stage gilt, copper, and shakudō tehen kanamono, and with a five-lame shikoro ending in fukigaeshi lacquered with heraldic crests in gold hiramaki-e, the fukigaeshi and mabizashi with gilt fukurin carved with scrolling vines, with a gilt-metal kuwagata-dai decorated with scrolling vines and gold lacquered-leather kuwagata, the helmet signed on the interior rear Ōshū no jū Yamato Munetsugu; the ressei menpō with red-lacquer lips, silvered teeth, and a boar-bristle mustache and chin tuft, with a four-lame yodarekake; the nimai okegawa nuinobe dō finished with printed leather on the upper plates, shakudō ornamental rings, gyōyō, and seven sections of five-lame kusazuri; chūsode trimmed with shakudō fukurin along the top edge of the kanmuri ita; the sangu all applied with gilt-metal heraldic crests; shinogote; kawara haidate; shino suneate; kōgetsu of leather and boar's fur; with two storage boxes; no armor stand
Laced in blue with orange and white highlights, comprising a russet-iron 62-plate ko-boshi kabuto, each plate with 27 finely forged hoshi (standing rivets) diminishing in size as the approach the crown, the bowl surmounted by a five-stage gilt, copper, and shakudō tehen kanamono, and with a five-lame shikoro ending in fukigaeshi lacquered with heraldic crests in gold hiramaki-e, the fukigaeshi and mabizashi with gilt fukurin carved with scrolling vines, with a gilt-metal kuwagata-dai decorated with scrolling vines and gold lacquered-leather kuwagata, the helmet signed on the interior rear Ōshū no jū Yamato Munetsugu; the ressei menpō with red-lacquer lips, silvered teeth, and a boar-bristle mustache and chin tuft, with a four-lame yodarekake; the nimai okegawa nuinobe dō finished with printed leather on the upper plates, shakudō ornamental rings, gyōyō, and seven sections of five-lame kusazuri; chūsode trimmed with shakudō fukurin along the top edge of the kanmuri ita; the sangu all applied with gilt-metal heraldic crests; shinogote; kawara haidate; shino suneate; kōgetsu of leather and boar's fur; with two storage boxes; no armor stand
Footnotes
Published
Okayama Prefectural Museum, ed., Meitō hyaku tō ten (100 Famous Helmets), exhibition catalogue, Okayama, 1990, no. 101 (helmet only).
Saleroom notices
Please note the helmet is signed Ōshū no jū Yamato Yoshitsugu