An Iron Ryubu-men Face Mask

LATE MUROMACHI PERIOD (16TH CENTURY), SIGNED GITSU

Details

An Iron Ryubu-men Face Mask
Late Muromachi period (16th century), signed Gitsu
The russet-iron mask forged in two sections and applied with vertical standing flanges on the cheeks, the nose plate hinged, chin with one cord peg
With a Koshu Tokubetsu Kicho Shiryo (First Grade Especially Important Material) certificate issued by the Nihon Kacchu Bugu Kenkyu Hozonkai (Society for the Study and Preservation of Japanese Arms and Armor), dated 1985.3.24

Provenance

Asano Seiichi, Tokyo

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Iida Kazuo, Kacchu men, mononofu no kaso (Armorer's masks, guise of the Samurai) (Tokyo: Token Shunshu shibunsha, 1991), no. 43.

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