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A MYŌCHIN MUNETSUGU ARMOR WITH A TATEHAGI DŌ Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century
26 October 2022, 10:00 EDT
New YorkUS$50,000 - US$70,000
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A MYŌCHIN MUNETSUGU ARMOR WITH A TATEHAGI DŌ
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century
The component parts lacquered black and laced in blue with orange highlights, the helmet a 32-plate russet-iron suji kabuto with a five-stage gilt-metal and copper chrysanthemum tehen kanamono, the three-lame shikoro laced in sugake style ending in large fukigaeshi decorated with printed leather, fusegumi, shakudō fukurin, star-shaped rivets, and gilt-metal heraldic crests of the Goshima clan, the mabizashi similarly decorated, the front adorned with a gold-lacquer maedate formed as a crescent moon; the Ryūbu menpō with a hinged nose plate and applied with flanges on the cheeks, fitted with a three-lame yodarekake; the cuirass a gomai tatehagi okegawa dō of russet iron with a medial ridge bordered by eight standing rivets, applied with ornamental rings below a section of printed leather on the munaita banded with a shakudō fukurin chiseled with scrolling vines, the straps protected by a pair of gyōyō, signed on the interior of the cuirass Ichiguchi Izumo Munetsugu and with a kaō, fitted with seven sections of five-lame kusazuri; chūsode with shakudō fukurin on the kanmuri ita; shinogote with gilt-metal Goshima crests on the tekkō; Iyo haidate; shino suneate and kōgetsu of leather and horse hair; with a purple wool jinbaori (surcoat) decorated on the reverse with the Goshima crest; with a large armor storage box; no armor stand
With a Tokubetsu Kichō Shiryō (Important Armor Material) certificate # 1512 issued by the Nihon Katchū Bugu Kenkyū Hozon Kai (Society for the Study and Preservation of Armor), dated November 23, 2000
The component parts lacquered black and laced in blue with orange highlights, the helmet a 32-plate russet-iron suji kabuto with a five-stage gilt-metal and copper chrysanthemum tehen kanamono, the three-lame shikoro laced in sugake style ending in large fukigaeshi decorated with printed leather, fusegumi, shakudō fukurin, star-shaped rivets, and gilt-metal heraldic crests of the Goshima clan, the mabizashi similarly decorated, the front adorned with a gold-lacquer maedate formed as a crescent moon; the Ryūbu menpō with a hinged nose plate and applied with flanges on the cheeks, fitted with a three-lame yodarekake; the cuirass a gomai tatehagi okegawa dō of russet iron with a medial ridge bordered by eight standing rivets, applied with ornamental rings below a section of printed leather on the munaita banded with a shakudō fukurin chiseled with scrolling vines, the straps protected by a pair of gyōyō, signed on the interior of the cuirass Ichiguchi Izumo Munetsugu and with a kaō, fitted with seven sections of five-lame kusazuri; chūsode with shakudō fukurin on the kanmuri ita; shinogote with gilt-metal Goshima crests on the tekkō; Iyo haidate; shino suneate and kōgetsu of leather and horse hair; with a purple wool jinbaori (surcoat) decorated on the reverse with the Goshima crest; with a large armor storage box; no armor stand
With a Tokubetsu Kichō Shiryō (Important Armor Material) certificate # 1512 issued by the Nihon Katchū Bugu Kenkyū Hozon Kai (Society for the Study and Preservation of Armor), dated November 23, 2000
