A FINE KAGA HAMBO
A FINE KAGA HAMBO

EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

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A FINE KAGA HAMBO
Edo Period (17th Century)
The large mask of russet iron well forged with wrinkles to the cheeks, otayori no kugi are backed with pierced plates and the borders of the mask have small repeating omodaka and ume blossoms applied, interior lacquered gold, the large yodare kake of five lames of iron plates black laqurered and hinged vertically, laced with green kebiki odoshi
Literature
Kazuo Iida, Katchu-men (Japan, 1991), no.10.

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