A blue-laced okegawa do armor
A blue-laced okegawa do armor

EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)

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A blue-laced okegawa do armor
Edo period (18th century)
The helmet a sixty-two-plate russet iron hoshi-bachi, four-tiered shikoro (neck guard) finished with small fukigaeshi each trimmed with gilt fukurin, mounted with a long, gilt-wood kuwagata-style maedate, the wide mabisashi (brim) lacquered in black and gold with a dragon and clouds, the russet iron menpo (facemask) with moustache, detachable nose and four-tiered yodarekake, with an okegawa do (cuirass formed of joined horizontal bands) of eight plates decorated in black, red and gold lacquer with a snarling dragon eyeing three butterflies on the munaita (upper breast plate), the kusazuri (skirt) of nine tassets each of five rows of itazane, the chu-sode (shoulder guards) lacquered in nashiji on the kanmuri-ita, russet iron shino-gote (sleeves), shino-haidate (thigh protectors), lacquered tsutsu suneate (leg guards)

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