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EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
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A Suit of Armor (Tosei Gusoku)
Edo Period (18th century)
The helmet a russet iron thirty-two-plate suji kabuto (helmet with standing flanges) with gilt-copper fukurin (metal edging along the rear vertical edge of each flange), a four-stage tehen-kanamono (decorative ring on the top of the bowl), and a five-lame neck guard attached to the rear laced in blue spaced lacing and lacquered gold on the underside, the helmet decorated with printed leather on the small fukigaeshi (turnbacks) with applied shakudo mitsudomoe crests and fitted with a lacquered metal mitsudomoe maedate (forecrest), the russet iron ressei face mask with a hair moustache, copper teeth and two omodaka crests on the chin and fitted with a five-lame yodorekake (throat guard) with ita-kozane, the interior lacquered red; the russet iron okegawa yokohagi do (solid cuirass of horizontal plates) with mounts finished in shakudo and pierce-carved with foliate scroll, the upper plate covered with black-lacquered leather and fitted with three mitsudomoe crests finished in shakudo, and with three dragon medallions in gold lacquer on the each shoulder, and with seven sections of five-lame ita-kusazuri (tassets) and wide ko-hire plates; the chu-sode (shoulder guards) laced in blue in kebeki-odoshi (close lacing) and the mounts matching those of the cuirass; a bracket for mounting a battle flag on the back of the cuirass; the sleeves oda-gote (chain mail sleeves with gourd-shaped iron plates) and the ikada haidate ("raft" thigh guards) and shin suneate (splint shin guards) laced in blue sugake-odoshi (spaced lacing)
Edo Period (18th century)
The helmet a russet iron thirty-two-plate suji kabuto (helmet with standing flanges) with gilt-copper fukurin (metal edging along the rear vertical edge of each flange), a four-stage tehen-kanamono (decorative ring on the top of the bowl), and a five-lame neck guard attached to the rear laced in blue spaced lacing and lacquered gold on the underside, the helmet decorated with printed leather on the small fukigaeshi (turnbacks) with applied shakudo mitsudomoe crests and fitted with a lacquered metal mitsudomoe maedate (forecrest), the russet iron ressei face mask with a hair moustache, copper teeth and two omodaka crests on the chin and fitted with a five-lame yodorekake (throat guard) with ita-kozane, the interior lacquered red; the russet iron okegawa yokohagi do (solid cuirass of horizontal plates) with mounts finished in shakudo and pierce-carved with foliate scroll, the upper plate covered with black-lacquered leather and fitted with three mitsudomoe crests finished in shakudo, and with three dragon medallions in gold lacquer on the each shoulder, and with seven sections of five-lame ita-kusazuri (tassets) and wide ko-hire plates; the chu-sode (shoulder guards) laced in blue in kebeki-odoshi (close lacing) and the mounts matching those of the cuirass; a bracket for mounting a battle flag on the back of the cuirass; the sleeves oda-gote (chain mail sleeves with gourd-shaped iron plates) and the ikada haidate ("raft" thigh guards) and shin suneate (splint shin guards) laced in blue sugake-odoshi (spaced lacing)