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A COLLECTION OF ARMOUR
Edo period (1603-1868)
The nimai hotoke do in russet iron, the front decorated in silver nunome with a kirin amidst foliage and clouds, the back plate forged with the watagami in one piece and fitted with a gilded copper agemaki no kan and a black lacquered leather gattari the tatehire and kohire covered with gold brocade and with a red and white crepe silk edging the leather kusazuri covered with brown leather laced with kon kebiki odoshi trimmed with black bear fur; Shino-gote of russet iron, the upper arm with small hexagonal plates, the surface heavily decorated with silver nunome; kawara- haidate and Shino-suneate mounted on gold brocade the three pieces matching; a pair of iron uchidashi sode, the russet iron upper plate deeply embossed with a butterfly, the two lower plates black lacquered; a pair on itamono-sode in russet iron, the vertical and horizontal plates secured by dome headed hoshi; and a pair of ko-sode of gold lacquered kiritsuke kozane laced iro-iro kebiki odoshi (12)
Edo period (1603-1868)
The nimai hotoke do in russet iron, the front decorated in silver nunome with a kirin amidst foliage and clouds, the back plate forged with the watagami in one piece and fitted with a gilded copper agemaki no kan and a black lacquered leather gattari the tatehire and kohire covered with gold brocade and with a red and white crepe silk edging the leather kusazuri covered with brown leather laced with kon kebiki odoshi trimmed with black bear fur; Shino-gote of russet iron, the upper arm with small hexagonal plates, the surface heavily decorated with silver nunome; kawara- haidate and Shino-suneate mounted on gold brocade the three pieces matching; a pair of iron uchidashi sode, the russet iron upper plate deeply embossed with a butterfly, the two lower plates black lacquered; a pair on itamono-sode in russet iron, the vertical and horizontal plates secured by dome headed hoshi; and a pair of ko-sode of gold lacquered kiritsuke kozane laced iro-iro kebiki odoshi (12)