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EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
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A Suit of Armor
Edo period (19th century)
All laced in blue and lacquered dark russet-brown with a sixty-two plate suji kabuto with a four-stage shakudo tehen kanamono (decorative ring on the top of the bowl) pierce-carved with chrysanthemum scroll, the rear fitted with a four-lame solid-plate neck guard, the top edge of each lame scalloped, lacquered-wood "u"-shaped maedate; the face mask with a hinged nose plate and applied with a bristle moustache, the lips lacquered red and the teeth silver and fitted with a four-lame solid-plate throat guard of false scales; the cuirass an okegawa do (constructed of horizontal plates) with mune tori and koshi tori (sections of lacing at top and bottom), the top edges of the cuirass lacquered black and fundame, fitted with seven sections of five-lame solid-plate tassets of false scales; six-lame solid-plate chu-sode (shoulder guards), each lame scalloped on the top edge; chain mail sleeves with solid plates and cross-shaped solid plates lacquered black on the forearms; thigh guards lacquered leather; splint shin guards; two wood storage boxes; no armor stand
Edo period (19th century)
All laced in blue and lacquered dark russet-brown with a sixty-two plate suji kabuto with a four-stage shakudo tehen kanamono (decorative ring on the top of the bowl) pierce-carved with chrysanthemum scroll, the rear fitted with a four-lame solid-plate neck guard, the top edge of each lame scalloped, lacquered-wood "u"-shaped maedate; the face mask with a hinged nose plate and applied with a bristle moustache, the lips lacquered red and the teeth silver and fitted with a four-lame solid-plate throat guard of false scales; the cuirass an okegawa do (constructed of horizontal plates) with mune tori and koshi tori (sections of lacing at top and bottom), the top edges of the cuirass lacquered black and fundame, fitted with seven sections of five-lame solid-plate tassets of false scales; six-lame solid-plate chu-sode (shoulder guards), each lame scalloped on the top edge; chain mail sleeves with solid plates and cross-shaped solid plates lacquered black on the forearms; thigh guards lacquered leather; splint shin guards; two wood storage boxes; no armor stand