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EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
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A Child's Armor (Warabe Gusoku)
Edo period (18th century)
Laced in green with orange trim and decorated on the do with gilt leather applied with shakudo cherry blossoms and comprising a zunari helmet lacquered black and fitted with turnbacks covered in gold-lacquered leather and applied with gilt-metal moths and shakudo fukurin carved with foliate scroll and with a five-lame neck guard, the maedate a simple gold-lacquer disc and the ushirodate a stand of gohei (paper offerings to Shinto deities); the hanbo facemask lacquered black and fitted with a four-lame solid-plate throat guard; the two-plate solid cuirass designed to resemble a yoko-hagi do with the muna-ita lacquered with a dragon in gold and red; the gyoyo decorated to match the turnbacks; the do fitted with seven sections of five-lame tassets; chu-sode; chain mail and splint plate sleeves; lacquered-leather thigh guards; splint shin guards; one storage box; no stand
Edo period (18th century)
Laced in green with orange trim and decorated on the do with gilt leather applied with shakudo cherry blossoms and comprising a zunari helmet lacquered black and fitted with turnbacks covered in gold-lacquered leather and applied with gilt-metal moths and shakudo fukurin carved with foliate scroll and with a five-lame neck guard, the maedate a simple gold-lacquer disc and the ushirodate a stand of gohei (paper offerings to Shinto deities); the hanbo facemask lacquered black and fitted with a four-lame solid-plate throat guard; the two-plate solid cuirass designed to resemble a yoko-hagi do with the muna-ita lacquered with a dragon in gold and red; the gyoyo decorated to match the turnbacks; the do fitted with seven sections of five-lame tassets; chu-sode; chain mail and splint plate sleeves; lacquered-leather thigh guards; splint shin guards; one storage box; no stand