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EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
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A KAWARI-KABUTO [ECCENTRICALLY SHAPED HELMET] AND A MENPO
Edo Period (18th Century)
The cleverly made russet-iron bowl of individual plates each with a single domed rivet coiling anticlockwise towards the apex, the plates and rivets reducing in size to give the impression of a coiled dragon, the surface decorated with dragons and clouds in silver and gold nunome [overlay], the mabisashi [peak] with a haraidate [crest holder], the black-lacquered close fitting Hineno-jikoro [neck guard] of kiritsuke-kozane [imitation lamellae] with yellow kebiki-odoshi [close lacing]. Together with a russet-iron Nara-style mask with hair moustache and chin tuft and copper teeth, with a four-lame yodarekake [throat defence] of black lacquered iron itamono [plates] with yellow kebiki-odoshi [close lacing] (2)
Edo Period (18th Century)
The cleverly made russet-iron bowl of individual plates each with a single domed rivet coiling anticlockwise towards the apex, the plates and rivets reducing in size to give the impression of a coiled dragon, the surface decorated with dragons and clouds in silver and gold nunome [overlay], the mabisashi [peak] with a haraidate [crest holder], the black-lacquered close fitting Hineno-jikoro [neck guard] of kiritsuke-kozane [imitation lamellae] with yellow kebiki-odoshi [close lacing]. Together with a russet-iron Nara-style mask with hair moustache and chin tuft and copper teeth, with a four-lame yodarekake [throat defence] of black lacquered iron itamono [plates] with yellow kebiki-odoshi [close lacing] (2)
Literature
Illustrated: L'art Guerrier au Japon, Samourai (Paris, 1987), p. 69, no. 33
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