A Suit of Armor with Cuirass designed as a naked torso (Morohada Nugi Do Gusoku)

(17TH CENTURY), HELMET SIGNED MYOCHIN MUNEYUKI IN RED LACQUER

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A Suit of Armor with Cuirass designed as a naked torso (Morohada Nugi Do Gusoku)
(17th century), helmet signed Myochin Muneyuki in red lacquer
The helmet a sixty-two plate suji kabuto (helmet bowl with standing flanges) with higaki (decorative elements on the flanges) in silver lacquer and fitted with a four-stage tehen kanamono (decorative ring on the top of the bowl), the peak with eyebrows hammered in relief and the fukigaeshi lacquered silver, the front of the helmet adorned with gold lacquer maedate (forecrest) of Daikoku's hammer, the helmet fitted with a solid-plate hineno jikoro (neck guard with a curved edge on the lowest lame) with kiritsuke kozane (false scales); the face mask a Ressei men (mask for high-ranking warriors) with gilt-iron teeth and applied with a moustache and chin tuft, fitted with a four-lame yodare kake (throat guard) with false scales; the armor laced in white with the accoutrements lacquered silver, the iron do (cuirass) lacquered a reddish-brown on the front to simulate a naked torso, the nipples bronze, with the lower half of the cuirass false lamellae and fitted with seven sections of leather kusazuri of false scales, the cuirass mounted on the back with a bracket for a flag; the chu-sode (small shoulder guards) iron kiritsuke kozane (false scales); the sleeves oda gote (sleeves with gourd-shape plates) and the thigh guards leather haidate; splint shin guards; wooden storage box

Provenance

Takatsu Toshiharu, Kyoto

Exhibited

Kozu Kobunka Kaikan, Kyoto, "Shuki Tokubetsu ten--Mononofu no bi-- yoroi, kabuto ten", 1994.10.25--11.13

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Shuki Tokubetsu ten- Mononofu no Bi- yoroi kabuto ten (Special autumn exhibition- The beauty of the warrior- armor and helmets), exh. cat., (Kyoto: Kozu Kobunka Kaikan, 1994), no. 23.

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