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LATE EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
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A TATAMI GUSOKU ARMOUR
Late Edo Period (19th Century)
The simple armour of good quality in excellent condition, all the black-lacquered, leather-covered karutagane [rectangular plates] joined by mail, those on the helmet and do [cuirass] of iron; sode [shoulder-guards] in leather; simple iron hanbo [chin and cheek mask] of black-lacquered iron with an applied ridge, a dragonfly at the centre, in soft metal; black-lacquered iron Shino-gote [sleeves] and suneate [shin-guards]; black-lacquered leather kawara-haidate [thigh-guards]; all mounted on a dark blue silk brocade and trimmed with dark blue doeskin; the helmet with two circle mon [crest] repeated as a maedate [forecrest] in copper with traces of gilding; together with the armour a sashimono [flag] in white silk with the circle mon [crest] in red, the poles missing; contained in an associated wood armour box
Late Edo Period (19th Century)
The simple armour of good quality in excellent condition, all the black-lacquered, leather-covered karutagane [rectangular plates] joined by mail, those on the helmet and do [cuirass] of iron; sode [shoulder-guards] in leather; simple iron hanbo [chin and cheek mask] of black-lacquered iron with an applied ridge, a dragonfly at the centre, in soft metal; black-lacquered iron Shino-gote [sleeves] and suneate [shin-guards]; black-lacquered leather kawara-haidate [thigh-guards]; all mounted on a dark blue silk brocade and trimmed with dark blue doeskin; the helmet with two circle mon [crest] repeated as a maedate [forecrest] in copper with traces of gilding; together with the armour a sashimono [flag] in white silk with the circle mon [crest] in red, the poles missing; contained in an associated wood armour box
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