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EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
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A suit of armor with cuirass designed as a half-naked torso (Katahada nugi do gusoku)
Edo period (18th century)
The helmet a black-lacquered three-plate oki tenugui kabuto with peaked brow and eyebrows embossed on the front plate, the top plate extending back over the bowl in a slightly upturned flange with ten rivets decorating the front edge, four-tiered shikoro (neck guard) finished with small fukigaeshi with lacquered mon, the maedate (forecrest) of a crescent moon, the russet-iron menpo (facemask) with moustache, detachable nose, silvered teeth, lacquered red lips and four-tiered yodarekake, the iron nimai do (two-piece cuirass) lacquered a reddish-brown on the front to simulate a half-exposed naked torso, the left half of the cuirass with false lamellae lacquered in brown and laced in blue kebiki odoshi (close lacing), with kusazuri (skirt) of six tassets, each of five rows of itazane, hinged itazane sode (shoulder guards), shino-gote sleeves), shino-haidate (thigh protectors), seven-splint-russet iron shino-suneate (leg guards), with a pair of woven donkey-hair sandals
Edo period (18th century)
The helmet a black-lacquered three-plate oki tenugui kabuto with peaked brow and eyebrows embossed on the front plate, the top plate extending back over the bowl in a slightly upturned flange with ten rivets decorating the front edge, four-tiered shikoro (neck guard) finished with small fukigaeshi with lacquered mon, the maedate (forecrest) of a crescent moon, the russet-iron menpo (facemask) with moustache, detachable nose, silvered teeth, lacquered red lips and four-tiered yodarekake, the iron nimai do (two-piece cuirass) lacquered a reddish-brown on the front to simulate a half-exposed naked torso, the left half of the cuirass with false lamellae lacquered in brown and laced in blue kebiki odoshi (close lacing), with kusazuri (skirt) of six tassets, each of five rows of itazane, hinged itazane sode (shoulder guards), shino-gote sleeves), shino-haidate (thigh protectors), seven-splint-russet iron shino-suneate (leg guards), with a pair of woven donkey-hair sandals
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