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EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
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A PURPLE-LACED NIMAIDO GUSOKU (ARMOR)
EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
The hoshi-bachi (riveted-style) helmet bowl with eighteen plates having large rounded hoshi (rivets) and with niho-jiro (three frontal and two rear plates with silver cladding), the front plate engraved with leafy scrolling and with a single gilt shinodare (inverted arrow-like decorative strip), a five-tiered manu-jikoro (deep neck guard) of gold-lacquered shittsukezane (single sheets simulating individual honkozane scales), having double dyed leather-clad fukigaeshi (turnbacks) with gilt triple-hollyhock leaf Tokugawa-clan mon, the mabisashi (brim) dyed leather-clad and riveted, both with shakudo fukurin (edging) engraved with leafy scrolling, gilt kuwagata (horn-shaped crest) with kuwagata-dai (kuwagata fixture) engraved with foliage, maedate (central crest) of a kurikara (dragon-entwined sword blade) of gold and silver-lacquered wood, a further maedate of a shikami demon- head lacquered gold with white hair in its box inscribed with the name Endo and "an auspicious day in the fifth month of the fourth year of the Ansei era (1857)," a russet iron somen (full face mask) with horse hair divided in spreads left and right signed Muneyasu, with five-tiered yodarekake (bib), the nimai yokohagi okegawa do- type cuirass lacquered black and with three-tiered munaita (upper breast section) and oshitsuke-no-ita with dyed-leather cladding, the plates black-lacquered and with silver rivet heads, with a black-lacquered wood saihai (signal baton) with silver fittings engraved with floral scrolling and with paper strips, an iron fan inscribed on the paper with the name Akiyama kodai, and hyakusen hyakusho ichinin (the single intent of one hundred fights and one hundred victories), a sashimono (banner) bearing a Sanskrit character, sode (shoulder guards) of six tiers of shittsukezane, lacquered gold with metal fittings of shakudo (black alloy of copper with gold) carved with chrysanthemums, three-tier yokohiki under sode, sanbontsutsu iron kote (sleeves) with a kawari-yama mon on the tekko (hand-covers), four-tired iyo haidate (thigh protector) all with orange backing silk with gold-embroidered auspicious symbols, triple-hinged tsustu suneate (shin guards), in its box with the Tokugawa mon, together with a separate leather and textile brigandine with kikko (hexagonal iron plates) sewn into the lining, in the form of a hara-ate (frontal body armor) and back-piece with shoulder straps.
Accompanied by a photograph of the armor, and kiwamefuda (ancient certificates of appraisal), each signed Munemasa and dated in accordance with 1749, one attributing the helmet to Munekazu, "the twenty-seventh generation following Takenouchi-no-Sukune Munetoku, a retainer of the Empress Jingu, a rare helmet with large rivets and nihojiro (two silver plates), value five hundred gold pieces, (this) appraisal nearby the castle, Edo, Musashi province, by the fifty-fifth descendant of Takenouchi-no Sukune, and the best armorer in Japan, Masuda Myochin Osumi (no) kami," signed Munemasa with Kishu Myochin seals, and another for the somen (full face mask) attributing it to Heisa Muneyasu, Izumo (no) kami Ki (no) Munesuke, the tenth generation after Masuda Myochin, also signed and sealed by Munemasa
EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
The hoshi-bachi (riveted-style) helmet bowl with eighteen plates having large rounded hoshi (rivets) and with niho-jiro (three frontal and two rear plates with silver cladding), the front plate engraved with leafy scrolling and with a single gilt shinodare (inverted arrow-like decorative strip), a five-tiered manu-jikoro (deep neck guard) of gold-lacquered shittsukezane (single sheets simulating individual honkozane scales), having double dyed leather-clad fukigaeshi (turnbacks) with gilt triple-hollyhock leaf Tokugawa-clan mon, the mabisashi (brim) dyed leather-clad and riveted, both with shakudo fukurin (edging) engraved with leafy scrolling, gilt kuwagata (horn-shaped crest) with kuwagata-dai (kuwagata fixture) engraved with foliage, maedate (central crest) of a kurikara (dragon-entwined sword blade) of gold and silver-lacquered wood, a further maedate of a shikami demon- head lacquered gold with white hair in its box inscribed with the name Endo and "an auspicious day in the fifth month of the fourth year of the Ansei era (1857)," a russet iron somen (full face mask) with horse hair divided in spreads left and right signed Muneyasu, with five-tiered yodarekake (bib), the nimai yokohagi okegawa do- type cuirass lacquered black and with three-tiered munaita (upper breast section) and oshitsuke-no-ita with dyed-leather cladding, the plates black-lacquered and with silver rivet heads, with a black-lacquered wood saihai (signal baton) with silver fittings engraved with floral scrolling and with paper strips, an iron fan inscribed on the paper with the name Akiyama kodai, and hyakusen hyakusho ichinin (the single intent of one hundred fights and one hundred victories), a sashimono (banner) bearing a Sanskrit character, sode (shoulder guards) of six tiers of shittsukezane, lacquered gold with metal fittings of shakudo (black alloy of copper with gold) carved with chrysanthemums, three-tier yokohiki under sode, sanbontsutsu iron kote (sleeves) with a kawari-yama mon on the tekko (hand-covers), four-tired iyo haidate (thigh protector) all with orange backing silk with gold-embroidered auspicious symbols, triple-hinged tsustu suneate (shin guards), in its box with the Tokugawa mon, together with a separate leather and textile brigandine with kikko (hexagonal iron plates) sewn into the lining, in the form of a hara-ate (frontal body armor) and back-piece with shoulder straps.
Accompanied by a photograph of the armor, and kiwamefuda (ancient certificates of appraisal), each signed Munemasa and dated in accordance with 1749, one attributing the helmet to Munekazu, "the twenty-seventh generation following Takenouchi-no-Sukune Munetoku, a retainer of the Empress Jingu, a rare helmet with large rivets and nihojiro (two silver plates), value five hundred gold pieces, (this) appraisal nearby the castle, Edo, Musashi province, by the fifty-fifth descendant of Takenouchi-no Sukune, and the best armorer in Japan, Masuda Myochin Osumi (no) kami," signed Munemasa with Kishu Myochin seals, and another for the somen (full face mask) attributing it to Heisa Muneyasu, Izumo (no) kami Ki (no) Munesuke, the tenth generation after Masuda Myochin, also signed and sealed by Munemasa
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