A Campaign Coat (Jinbaori)

EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

Details

A Campaign Coat (Jinbaori)
Edo period (17th century)
Constructed of black-lacquered leather iyo-zane (lamellae) and laced in dark and pale blue lacing in a stripe pattern, the lowest sections laced in orange, the interiors of the lamellae lacquered gold and the collar, upper half of the interior and lapels applied with blue, green, yellow, orange and white leather printed with family crests, the lapels fastened by gilt-metal buttons carved with foliate scroll on a nanako ground; mauve cords
29¼in. (74cm.) long

Exhibited

Shinjuku Keio Department Store, Tokyo, "Meisho yusho no omokage o shinobu, Nihon no yoroi kabuto ten" (Remembering great commanders, an exhibition of Japanese armor), 1965.5.1-19

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Meisho yusho no omokage o shinobu, Nihon no yoroi kabuto ten (Remembering great commanders, an exhibition of Japanese armor), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Otsuka Kogeisha, 1965), no.141.

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