A MOYEGI-ITO-ODOSHI GOLD LACQUERED DOMARU, comprising a fine russet-iron sixty-two plate koboshi bachi, each plate with thirty-one koboshi, the interior gilt, signed Myochin Shigenobu (last character indistinct), second half 16th century, with copper-gilt four-stage kikuza tehen-kanamono, kosho-no-kan and agemaki; the mabizashi and fukigaeshi covered with silk brocade and fitted with engraved copper-gilt fukurin, the five-lame shikoro attached to the koshimaki with four pairs of chrysanthemum-headed studs passing through engraved hasso-kanagu; with a fine red-lacquered mempo with detachable nosepiece, silver-covered teeth and black hair moustache, and large two-lame yodarekake; the do fitted with gilt fukurin on the buckskin-covered munaita and gyoyo, the copper-gilt rivet-heads on the front of the do bearing a tsurumaru or "dancing crane" mon; with associated but probably contemporary ito-iro odoshi kosode, laced in red, white and green in kebiki style, kusari-gote with gilt hyotan-gane and shino, matching haidate and shino-suneate, and a fine red-lacquered maru-no-hi maedate, signed Morikazu

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A MOYEGI-ITO-ODOSHI GOLD LACQUERED DOMARU, comprising a fine russet-iron sixty-two plate koboshi bachi, each plate with thirty-one koboshi, the interior gilt, signed Myochin Shigenobu (last character indistinct), second half 16th century, with copper-gilt four-stage kikuza tehen-kanamono, kosho-no-kan and agemaki; the mabizashi and fukigaeshi covered with silk brocade and fitted with engraved copper-gilt fukurin, the five-lame shikoro attached to the koshimaki with four pairs of chrysanthemum-headed studs passing through engraved hasso-kanagu; with a fine red-lacquered mempo with detachable nosepiece, silver-covered teeth and black hair moustache, and large two-lame yodarekake; the do fitted with gilt fukurin on the buckskin-covered munaita and gyoyo, the copper-gilt rivet-heads on the front of the do bearing a tsurumaru or "dancing crane" mon; with associated but probably contemporary ito-iro odoshi kosode, laced in red, white and green in kebiki style, kusari-gote with gilt hyotan-gane and shino, matching haidate and shino-suneate, and a fine red-lacquered maru-no-hi maedate, signed Morikazu

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The brass kuwagata-dai is a 19th century addition, as are the kuwagata and the mon on the fukigaeshi and munaita; the original fittings would have been copper-gilt and would have carried the owners mon, removed when the armour was disposed of; the mon may have been the tsurumaru which appears on the rivet-heads, which, judging from the shanks remaining, appeared also near the ends of the upper lame of the yodarekake

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