Lot Essay
The wakidate represent the mind reaching for heaven.
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A GUSOKU ARMOR OF DOMARU TYPE
EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
The two plate iron helmet in eboshi style covered in gold lacquer, the mabizashi molded with sharply defined eyebrows, the fukurin in shakudo and delicately traced in scrolling leaf patterns, the black lacquered fukigaeshi similarly decorated with shakudo fukurin and emblazoned with gold lacquer Ohta family crests, the five stage shikoro blue laced and orange silk tassel attached to the rear, with gold lacquered circular maedate and and wood and gold lacquer wakidate, the iron black lacquered mempo formed as a grimacing face with three stage blue laced shikoro the okegawa do blue laced and with matching sode kusari gote, kote hidate and suneate, in wood storage box.
EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
The two plate iron helmet in eboshi style covered in gold lacquer, the mabizashi molded with sharply defined eyebrows, the fukurin in shakudo and delicately traced in scrolling leaf patterns, the black lacquered fukigaeshi similarly decorated with shakudo fukurin and emblazoned with gold lacquer Ohta family crests, the five stage shikoro blue laced and orange silk tassel attached to the rear, with gold lacquered circular maedate and and wood and gold lacquer wakidate, the iron black lacquered mempo formed as a grimacing face with three stage blue laced shikoro the okegawa do blue laced and with matching sode kusari gote, kote hidate and suneate, in wood storage box.