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EDO PERIOD (18TH-19TH CENTURY)
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A Suit of Armor (Tosei Gusoku)
Edo period (18th-19th century)
Lacquered red with a sixty-two plate hoshi bachi (helmet with 1,980 standing rivets) with a four-stage gold-lacquered tehen-kanamono (ornamental ring on the top of the helmet), the fukigaeshi (turnbacks) ornamented with a mokko crest, the edges decorated with fukurin (rolled-metal edging), the helmet fitted with a five-plate solid neck guard laced in blue in kebiki-odoshi (close lacing), the peak adorned with a lacquered-wood maedate (forecrest) of tomoe (whorls); the facemask with a detachable nose, gold-lacquered teeth, a bristle moustache and fitted with a four-plate false-lamellae throat guard closed-laced in blue lacing; the nimai-do (two-plate standing cuirass), kusazuri (skirt of the cuirass) and the chu-sode (shoulder guards) all of false lamellae and closed laced in blue lacing, the kusazuri trimmed in bear fur; with oda gote (chain mail sleeves with gourd-shaped plates), ikada haidate ("raft" thigh guards) and shino suneate (splint shin guards); a socket and tube for mounting a flag (sashimono) on the back of the cuirass; with saihai (wood war fan); karabitsu (wood storage box)
Edo period (18th-19th century)
Lacquered red with a sixty-two plate hoshi bachi (helmet with 1,980 standing rivets) with a four-stage gold-lacquered tehen-kanamono (ornamental ring on the top of the helmet), the fukigaeshi (turnbacks) ornamented with a mokko crest, the edges decorated with fukurin (rolled-metal edging), the helmet fitted with a five-plate solid neck guard laced in blue in kebiki-odoshi (close lacing), the peak adorned with a lacquered-wood maedate (forecrest) of tomoe (whorls); the facemask with a detachable nose, gold-lacquered teeth, a bristle moustache and fitted with a four-plate false-lamellae throat guard closed-laced in blue lacing; the nimai-do (two-plate standing cuirass), kusazuri (skirt of the cuirass) and the chu-sode (shoulder guards) all of false lamellae and closed laced in blue lacing, the kusazuri trimmed in bear fur; with oda gote (chain mail sleeves with gourd-shaped plates), ikada haidate ("raft" thigh guards) and shino suneate (splint shin guards); a socket and tube for mounting a flag (sashimono) on the back of the cuirass; with saihai (wood war fan); karabitsu (wood storage box)
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.