Details
A light-blue laced two-piece cuirass armor (negiiro-odoshi hon-kozane niwai-do gusoku)
Edo period (18th century)
The armor comprising:
Helmet [kabuto]:
A sixteen-plate russet iron round-studded helmet bowl signed Joshu (no) ju Saotome Iesada, with four gilt arrow-shaped pendants, the aperture at the crown with a four-tier silver, gilt, and black alloy chrysanthemum surround, the brim clad with dyed and gilt leather with copper edging, gilt fore-crest stylized horns fixture pierced and carved with chrysanthemum leaves and blossoms, fore-crest of a gilt dragon encircling a double-edged sword blade, gilt sheet stylized horns, five-tier neck-guard of laced black-lacquered iron plates with serrated profile (shittsuke-zane), the upper turned-back portions at the front having lower section lacquered black and with red cross-knotting
Face Mask [menpo]:
Russet iron whole face mask, the upper half with detachable nose and large white bristly moustache detachable, signed under the chin Nobumasa and with a stylized personal mark, throat guard of chain mail and brigandine-style hexagonal iron pieces sewn onto textile
Cuirass [do]:
two-piece cuirass of rows of individual black-lacquered scales (hon-kozane) closely laced with light blue braid, the upper part clad with black and gold lacquered leather, a central nine bamboo-grass leaves badge, gilt metal pieces pierced and carved with chrysanthemums, two pendant breast shields, that on the left with a cusped profile at the top, clad with dyed leather with black alloy edging , that on the right with upper portion matching the left, and with three tiers of laced black-lacquered plate, both with applied nine bamboo grass leaves badge skirt of seven sections each of five tiers of blue close-laced individual scales, the lower tiers with red cross-knotting
Sleeves and shoulder guards [kote and sode]:
sleeves of black-lacquered iron rectangles on the upper arm, and on the lower arm hinged plates forming the profile of the arm, with separate hand covers bearing each a gilt nine grasses badge, all linked with chain mail sewn onto silk embroidered with leaves in gold: seven tier shoulder guards laced matching the cuirass, the upper section with dyed leather border with three gilt fixtures pierced and carved with chrysanthemums, above which the top portion clad with black and gold lacquered leather
Thigh and lower leg guards [haidate and suneate]:
Thigh guard of lacquered iron rectangles close-laced with white braid, sewn onto gold brocade silk with leaves: lower leg guards of black-lacquered iron plates and gilt leather section with colored leaves laced together with white braid
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