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EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH-18TH CENTURY)
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A Suit of Armor
Edo period (late 17th-18th century)
Lacquered gold and laced entirely in orange and with purple accents and comprising; an eboshi kabuto lacquered gold and fitted with silver fukurin around the small turnbacks and across the front of the peak, the turnbacks applied with silver family crests, five-lame solid-plate neck guard, a Buddhist ken maedate, the face mask lacquered black with a hinged nose and silvered teeth with a red-lacquer upper lip and applied with a boar's hair moustache and chin tuft, the mask fitted with a four-lame solid-plate throat guard lacquered black; the cuirass a ni-mai do-maru of true scales mounted with shakudo hardware and applied with stencilled leather on the muna-ita and oshitsuke no ita; o-sode with shakudo hardware and stencilled leather applied to the kanmuri no ita; sleeves chain mail and gourd-shaped plates; iyozane thigh guards; splint shin guards; one storage box; no armor stand
Wood storage box with paper label inscribed Chosei'in sama
Edo period (late 17th-18th century)
Lacquered gold and laced entirely in orange and with purple accents and comprising; an eboshi kabuto lacquered gold and fitted with silver fukurin around the small turnbacks and across the front of the peak, the turnbacks applied with silver family crests, five-lame solid-plate neck guard, a Buddhist ken maedate, the face mask lacquered black with a hinged nose and silvered teeth with a red-lacquer upper lip and applied with a boar's hair moustache and chin tuft, the mask fitted with a four-lame solid-plate throat guard lacquered black; the cuirass a ni-mai do-maru of true scales mounted with shakudo hardware and applied with stencilled leather on the muna-ita and oshitsuke no ita; o-sode with shakudo hardware and stencilled leather applied to the kanmuri no ita; sleeves chain mail and gourd-shaped plates; iyozane thigh guards; splint shin guards; one storage box; no armor stand
Wood storage box with paper label inscribed Chosei'in sama
Provenance
By repute, Abe Masakuni, Fukuyama, Bingo Province