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EDO PERIOD (18TH/19TH CENTURY)
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A FINE MYOCHIN SCHOOL UCHIDASHI TOSEI GUSOKU ARMOUR
Edo Period (18th/19th Century)
The kabuto [helmet] with russet-iron twelve-plate oboshi-hoshibachi [bowl with large standing rivets] with uchidashi [repoussé] dragons applied to four of the plates, with signature Tensho jugonen sangatsu kichinichi Soshu Yukinoshita no ju Iehisa kore o saku [made by Iehisa at Yukinoshita in Sagami province on a lucky day in the third month of the fifteenth year of Tensho (1587)] and with invocations to the deities Hachiman and Kasuga; mabisashi [peak] with three-lame sugake-odoshi [spaced lacing] shikoro [neck-guard], iron menpo [mask] with uchidashi cheeks and a kon-ito kebiki-odoshi yodarekake [throat-guard with close-spaced purple lacing]; signed Myochin Shinpachiro Muneyuki and dated 1848, the do [body-armour] of yukinoshita type with an uchidashi shishi [lion] at the front, iron watagami and kohire, the gyoyo [strap-protectors] with uchidashi bonji [stylised Sanskrit characters], fitted with detachable kebiki-odoshi kusazuri [close-laced tassets], the kusari-gote [chain-mail sleeves] with omodaka-mon [water-plantain crests] on the tekko [hand-guards], the iron uchidashi sode [shoulder-guards] with the bodhisattvas Fugen and Monju in uchidashi, signed Myochin Osumi no kami Munesuke tsukuru [made by Myochin Munesuke, guardian of Osumi province] and dated Kyoho mizunoto-u [1723]; the kobakama-haidate [thigh-guards] covered with overlapping iron plates in the form of mugwort leaves, with russet iron tsutsu-suneate [shin-guards] and kogake
Edo Period (18th/19th Century)
The kabuto [helmet] with russet-iron twelve-plate oboshi-hoshibachi [bowl with large standing rivets] with uchidashi [repoussé] dragons applied to four of the plates, with signature Tensho jugonen sangatsu kichinichi Soshu Yukinoshita no ju Iehisa kore o saku [made by Iehisa at Yukinoshita in Sagami province on a lucky day in the third month of the fifteenth year of Tensho (1587)] and with invocations to the deities Hachiman and Kasuga; mabisashi [peak] with three-lame sugake-odoshi [spaced lacing] shikoro [neck-guard], iron menpo [mask] with uchidashi cheeks and a kon-ito kebiki-odoshi yodarekake [throat-guard with close-spaced purple lacing]; signed Myochin Shinpachiro Muneyuki and dated 1848, the do [body-armour] of yukinoshita type with an uchidashi shishi [lion] at the front, iron watagami and kohire, the gyoyo [strap-protectors] with uchidashi bonji [stylised Sanskrit characters], fitted with detachable kebiki-odoshi kusazuri [close-laced tassets], the kusari-gote [chain-mail sleeves] with omodaka-mon [water-plantain crests] on the tekko [hand-guards], the iron uchidashi sode [shoulder-guards] with the bodhisattvas Fugen and Monju in uchidashi, signed Myochin Osumi no kami Munesuke tsukuru [made by Myochin Munesuke, guardian of Osumi province] and dated Kyoho mizunoto-u [1723]; the kobakama-haidate [thigh-guards] covered with overlapping iron plates in the form of mugwort leaves, with russet iron tsutsu-suneate [shin-guards] and kogake
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