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EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)
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A KAWARI-KABUTO [ECCENTRICALLY SHAPED HELMET] AND A MENPO
Edo Period (Late 17th Century)
A simple three-plate zu-nari [head-shaped] helmet-bowl overlaid with coarse hair, to the rear a detachable queue of hair bound with a gilded cord completing the appearance of a hairstyle called sogami-mage and favoured by yamabushi [warrior monks], the russet lacquered brow plate embossed with eyebrows, the six-lame black-lacquered itamono Hineno-jikoro [solid-plate close-fitting neck-guard] with blue sugake-odoshi [spaced lacing]. Together with a ressei-style mask russet-lacquered with gilded copper teeth and a stiff hair moustache and chin tuft, the four-lame itamono yodarekake [solid-plate throat defence] lacquered black with the lower plate in gold and black, with mid-blue sugake-odoshi [spaced lacing]
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Edo Period (Late 17th Century)
A simple three-plate zu-nari [head-shaped] helmet-bowl overlaid with coarse hair, to the rear a detachable queue of hair bound with a gilded cord completing the appearance of a hairstyle called sogami-mage and favoured by yamabushi [warrior monks], the russet lacquered brow plate embossed with eyebrows, the six-lame black-lacquered itamono Hineno-jikoro [solid-plate close-fitting neck-guard] with blue sugake-odoshi [spaced lacing]. Together with a ressei-style mask russet-lacquered with gilded copper teeth and a stiff hair moustache and chin tuft, the four-lame itamono yodarekake [solid-plate throat defence] lacquered black with the lower plate in gold and black, with mid-blue sugake-odoshi [spaced lacing]
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Literature
L'art Guerrier au Japon, Samourai (Paris, 1987), p. 76, no. 42
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