EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)
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A GOMAI-DO YUKINOSHITA ARMOR
EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)
The armor with a sixty-two-plate heavily lacquered black iron sujibachi helmet, the wide black-lacquered iron brim with gold-lacquered constellations, expansive three-plate shikoro (neck guard) with green and faded buff-colored lacing, the fukigaeshi with gold-lacquered crests of opposed sparrows within a bamboo circle (mon of the Date clan), on the back an agamaki-kan (cord ring) with a red-silk agamaki knot, the maedate (forecrest) a gilt-wood sun, with two gilt-wood high-reaching trailing clouds replacing kuwagata, a menpo (facemask) of black-lacquered iron with detachable nose in the form of a large bird (or tengu) beak, the do (cuirass) of five-plate Yukinoshita-style lacquered brown, having a single bullet mark in the center of the chest, a large gold-lacquered crest of sparrows within a circle on the front, three mitsu hikiryo mon (crest with three vertical bars) on the back, with two identical mon on the gyoyo, two loose gilt-copper cord fixture rings on the breasts, the five-plate black-lacquered iron kusazuri (skirt) of green lacing with white lacing along the edges, black-lacquered iron haidate (thigh guards) of kawara-kozane ("tile scales," overlapping scales), hyotan-gote (sleeves of chain with gourd-shaped plates), black-lacquered spiral-ribbed iron tsutsu suneate (shin protectors)
Accompanied by a certificate of registration as Koshu tokubetsu kicho shiryo (Especially valuable of the top rank) no. ko toku 1046 issued by the Nihon Katchu Bugu Kenkyu Hozonkai, dated 2007.11.18
EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)
The armor with a sixty-two-plate heavily lacquered black iron sujibachi helmet, the wide black-lacquered iron brim with gold-lacquered constellations, expansive three-plate shikoro (neck guard) with green and faded buff-colored lacing, the fukigaeshi with gold-lacquered crests of opposed sparrows within a bamboo circle (mon of the Date clan), on the back an agamaki-kan (cord ring) with a red-silk agamaki knot, the maedate (forecrest) a gilt-wood sun, with two gilt-wood high-reaching trailing clouds replacing kuwagata, a menpo (facemask) of black-lacquered iron with detachable nose in the form of a large bird (or tengu) beak, the do (cuirass) of five-plate Yukinoshita-style lacquered brown, having a single bullet mark in the center of the chest, a large gold-lacquered crest of sparrows within a circle on the front, three mitsu hikiryo mon (crest with three vertical bars) on the back, with two identical mon on the gyoyo, two loose gilt-copper cord fixture rings on the breasts, the five-plate black-lacquered iron kusazuri (skirt) of green lacing with white lacing along the edges, black-lacquered iron haidate (thigh guards) of kawara-kozane ("tile scales," overlapping scales), hyotan-gote (sleeves of chain with gourd-shaped plates), black-lacquered spiral-ribbed iron tsutsu suneate (shin protectors)
Accompanied by a certificate of registration as Koshu tokubetsu kicho shiryo (Especially valuable of the top rank) no. ko toku 1046 issued by the Nihon Katchu Bugu Kenkyu Hozonkai, dated 2007.11.18
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Emma Winder