Lot Essay
Bamen Masaharu is an unrecorded smith. Dating has therefore been by comparison with similar examples of this school.
![A HOSHI BACHI KABUTO [HELMET]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/CKS/2005_CKS_07050_0809_000(103440).jpg?w=1)
SIGNED BAMEN MASAHARU, EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
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A HOSHI BACHI KABUTO [HELMET]
Signed Bamen Masaharu, Edo Period (18th Century)
The sixty-two plate russet iron bowl, with standing rivet heads of shallow rounded points typical of this school, the mabisashi [peak] black lacquered, mounted with a six stage tehen kanamono [mount for the hole at the top], mayedate [fore crest] of gilded metal in the form of bamboo leaves, associated, with five lame hineno jikoro [neckguard] of itamono [solid plates], laced in blue sugake odoshi [spaced lacing], the fukigaeshi [ear pieces] with gold lacquered ishidatami mon [crest] of the Tsuchiya daimyo family of Tsuchiura in Hitachi
Signed Bamen Masaharu, Edo Period (18th Century)
The sixty-two plate russet iron bowl, with standing rivet heads of shallow rounded points typical of this school, the mabisashi [peak] black lacquered, mounted with a six stage tehen kanamono [mount for the hole at the top], mayedate [fore crest] of gilded metal in the form of bamboo leaves, associated, with five lame hineno jikoro [neckguard] of itamono [solid plates], laced in blue sugake odoshi [spaced lacing], the fukigaeshi [ear pieces] with gold lacquered ishidatami mon [crest] of the Tsuchiya daimyo family of Tsuchiura in Hitachi
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