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EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
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A KAWARI-KABUTO [ECCENTRICALLY SHAPED HELMET] AND A MENPO
Edo Period (19th Century)
A simple zu-nari [head-shaped] bowl built up with leather to form an ori-eboshi [folded court cap], the whole lacquered black with moulded wrinkles on the brow, a well moulded naturalistic crocodile with ivory eyes and teeth added to the flattened top of the cap, on the front a kuwagatadai [mount for the horns], the kuwagata [horns] formed as folded single hollyhock leaves, the maedate [forecrest] formed as a single hollyhock leaf, the plain black-lacquered iron itamono Hineno-jikoro [close-fitting solid-plate neck-guard] with dark blue sugake-odoshi [spaced lacing], the simple black-lacquered leather-covered fukigaeshi [turnbacks to the neck-guard] with roped shakudo [copper-gold alloy] fukurin [rim]. Together with a black-lacquered iron mask in ressei style with hair moustache and chin tuft and gilt-copper teeth, the four-lame iron itamono yodarekake [solid-plate throat defence] covered in leather and lacquered black, with black sugake-odoshi [spaced lacing]. (2)
Edo Period (19th Century)
A simple zu-nari [head-shaped] bowl built up with leather to form an ori-eboshi [folded court cap], the whole lacquered black with moulded wrinkles on the brow, a well moulded naturalistic crocodile with ivory eyes and teeth added to the flattened top of the cap, on the front a kuwagatadai [mount for the horns], the kuwagata [horns] formed as folded single hollyhock leaves, the maedate [forecrest] formed as a single hollyhock leaf, the plain black-lacquered iron itamono Hineno-jikoro [close-fitting solid-plate neck-guard] with dark blue sugake-odoshi [spaced lacing], the simple black-lacquered leather-covered fukigaeshi [turnbacks to the neck-guard] with roped shakudo [copper-gold alloy] fukurin [rim]. Together with a black-lacquered iron mask in ressei style with hair moustache and chin tuft and gilt-copper teeth, the four-lame iron itamono yodarekake [solid-plate throat defence] covered in leather and lacquered black, with black sugake-odoshi [spaced lacing]. (2)
Literature
L'art Guerrier au Japon, Samourai (Paris, 1987), p. 81, no. 48
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