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EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
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AN EXCEPTIONAL MEMPO
Edo Period (18th Century)
The mask in russet iron finely forged with spiral wrinkles on the cheek, a nose in the sharply downturned shape of a kite's beak [tobi] is riveted on with four rivets left proud of the surface and the chin has two pegs, interior lacquered red, a two lame throat defence of solid plates each covered with brown lacquered leather and joined to the mask with a band of leather similarly lacquered. Laced with a red/brown close lacing the top plate with three mon [badge] headed rivets with crossed hawk feathers
Edo Period (18th Century)
The mask in russet iron finely forged with spiral wrinkles on the cheek, a nose in the sharply downturned shape of a kite's beak [tobi] is riveted on with four rivets left proud of the surface and the chin has two pegs, interior lacquered red, a two lame throat defence of solid plates each covered with brown lacquered leather and joined to the mask with a band of leather similarly lacquered. Laced with a red/brown close lacing the top plate with three mon [badge] headed rivets with crossed hawk feathers
Literature
Kazuo Iida, Katchu-men (Japan, 1991), no.7.